"I
was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me
was the whole hoop of the world. And
while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I
saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the
spirit. and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one
being. And
I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one
circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty
flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and father. And I saw that
it was holy."
"It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is at great cost, to those in easier circumstances."