Dark Sky Park, Island and Reserve
Members of the CfDS have been involved in the following International Dark-Sky Association designations:
- Galloway Forest Park - Dark Sky Park (2009)
- Sark - IDA's first international dark-sky island (Silver tier) (2011)
- Exmoor - Dark Sky Reserve (2011)
Read more about this topic: Campaign For Dark Skies
Famous quotes containing the words dark, sky, island and/or reserve:
“Their school a crowd, his master solitude;
Through Jonathan Swift’s dark grove he passed, and there
Plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Usually the scenery about them is drear and savage enough; and the logger’s camp is as completely in the woods as a fungus at the foot of a pine in a swamp; no outlook but to the sky overhead; no more clearing than is made by cutting down the trees of which it is built, and those which are necessary for fuel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Her face had the seamed reserve of the old in this country [Japan]. It was a neighborhood poignantly rich in old ladies.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)