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:
“They have slapped into the American mind more human misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“Morning, a glass door, flashes
Gold names off the new city,
Whose white shelves and domes travel
The slow sky all day.
I land to stay here....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)