#791 What You Said
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This week, Clay S. Jenkinson talks the new Ken Burns/Dayton Duncan film, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, and his participation in it. He discusses working with Ken Burns, voices his thoughts on the film and reacts to what he said in the interviews.
His statements in the film include: “It's not the best idea. The best idea came from Thomas Jefferson that all human beings irrespective of the accident of their birth are entitled to enjoy the aspirations of being fully complete and free human beings. That's America's gift to the world. But right up there are the National Parks. Jefferson I think would say, if you go out into the heart of America and see this continent in it's glory, it will embolden you to dream about the possibilities of life. That American nature is the guarantor of constitutional freedom; that if you don't have a genuine link to nature in a serious even profound way you can't be an American. Jefferson looked across America from the portico at Monticello and he saw wilderness all the way out, so he couldn't conceive of a national park because for Jefferson America was a national park. This country is Eden, and we American's had this glorious opportunity to see the world in it's infancy, so that America in a sense had been kept a symbol of what the world once was.”
His statements in the film include: “It's not the best idea. The best idea came from Thomas Jefferson that all human beings irrespective of the accident of their birth are entitled to enjoy the aspirations of being fully complete and free human beings. That's America's gift to the world. But right up there are the National Parks. Jefferson I think would say, if you go out into the heart of America and see this continent in it's glory, it will embolden you to dream about the possibilities of life. That American nature is the guarantor of constitutional freedom; that if you don't have a genuine link to nature in a serious even profound way you can't be an American. Jefferson looked across America from the portico at Monticello and he saw wilderness all the way out, so he couldn't conceive of a national park because for Jefferson America was a national park. This country is Eden, and we American's had this glorious opportunity to see the world in it's infancy, so that America in a sense had been kept a symbol of what the world once was.”
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from 2009,
track released October 18, 2009
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Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson
The Thomas Jefferson Hour is a weekly radio program dedicated to the search for truth in the tradition of Thomas
Jefferson.
Nationally acclaimed humanities scholar and award-winning first-person interpreter of Thomas Jefferson, Clay S. Jenkinson, portrays Jefferson on the program, and he answers listener questions while in the persona of our third president.
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