People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Interpretation
People prefer beautiful surroundings for enjoyment, and it's our duty to protect and enhance nature.
This quote by Jack Nicklaus emphasizes the human desire for beauty in our environment and highlights the responsibility we have to care for and improve our surroundings. It suggests that while we should appreciate what nature provides, we also have the ability to enhance it without causing harm, promoting a harmonious relationship with the environment.
In practice
During a speech about environmental conservation.
There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.
Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.
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