- Our national monuments, to a great degree,
protect the places of history,
of culture, of natural beauty.
If we were to lose monuments,
then that's like taking out a piece of our soul.
- To attack national monuments undermines
the precious natural heritage of the people and the nation.
- [Audrey] The current administration is undertaking an
effort to review national monuments created since 1996.
To me, that is fairly odious, shall we say.
- In the simplest terms,
the basic threat is destruction of the area.
If it doesn't have the protections,
then it can be destroyed.
- It's about the people and the ties to the land
that these people have had
for hundreds and thousands of years in some cases.
It really is like a history book
that you can walk in and touch
and experience and learn from.
- [Hillerie] When I was a kid in the first grade
growing up in Kansas, we learned "This Land is Your Land."
When I go out on the public lands,
I always think of that song.
Think it's important that all of us
take an active interest in making sure
that these areas are here for all of us to enjoy.
- The effort to "review" national monuments
that are already in the public lands system,
to my mind, is really reprehensible.
- [Robert] It's wrong on environmental grounds,
it's wrong on social justice grounds,
it's wrong because it violates the will of the people.
- [Hillerie] We don't want to make
our public lands a partisan issue.
It's something that all Americans can enjoy.
- Presidents add monuments, they don't subtract them.
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