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UF00083757_00019_pdf.txt

NATIONAL RECREATIONAL CONGRESS
MIAMI BEACH
OCTOBER h, 196
Floridians are always pleased to welcome guests
But especially pleased that you are here.
2/3 or our people are immigrants
Brought here by the lure of unlimited opportunity

Not only a way of life -- a way of sustaining life

we like to think of Florida as 8 Recreation State



And hope yOu find we deserve it
I have been tantalized by your theme:
Live All YOur Life





It suggests we are in danger or not doing so --
That our years can be "existance" -- not living

That conscious effort is required to achieve "living."

And of course that is so
For life to have meaning --
For years to give pleasure --
For our senses to respond to the stimuli of life--
There must be more than a passive submission to our environment

I think or the cartoons of middle-aged husbands following their wives
around the historic shrines of Europe

I think of the cartoons or middle-aged wives following their husbands
as they watch pretty girls on the beach

Beauty speaks to everyone -- but everyone doesn't listen

That's what your theme suggests to me -- but not all

Recreation is work



It's hard work to go hunting -- to watch birds -- to go to a

football game -- to collect your suntan lotion, dark glasses,

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towels, and rubber ball Just to go down to the beach
The constructive use of leisure time is a form of hard work
It differs from work only in that the rewards are the intangibles
of life
Leisure time is not idle time
It is gar time
It is time to be spent on work that is its own reward
Your great theme recognizes that life doesn't begin or end at the door
of the office or factory
That real values grow out of recreation -- if we will work at it
In Florida -- we have begun to work at it
Our first emphasis has been on "outdoor recreation" --
this is an outdoor state -- "rescuree-based" recreation --
using vulnerable, fragile nature as a base
Thus, management of these supporting resources is as important in
this case as the conduct of the recreational use programs themselves.
Because of the rather extensive resource needs required for
outdoor recreation, these pregrams have traditionally been handled by
the state, rather than local governments -- although I would not want
to detract one bit from the indispensable part played by both local
government and private enterprise. For many years, however, the state
has assumed the responsibility for providing a park system, for managing
its fish and game resources, for developing the recreational potential
of its state forests and water impOundment areas, and for installing
recreational facilities along its highways and bridges -- all for the

benefit of the outdoor recreation user.

There is something in the American people that makes them naturally

turn to the outdoors for a large part of their recreational experience.

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)This fact has never been so manifest as in the outdoor recreation boom
t recent years, and Florida -- along with the rest or the rest or
he nation -- was caught unsuspecting by an avalanche of outdoor
recreation demand. It did not take us long in the race of this dynamic
develOpment to realize that publicly owned Outdoor recreational resources
in Florida were inadequate to meet the new demand, and that a bad
situation was getting worse as each day passed.

Our response, perhaps, was late in coming, but Florida is now
consultth to outdoor recreational programing on a grand scale. This
administration has given a very high priority to this area of state
responsibility, and I am truly gratified by the progress we have made.
:Following a two-year study by an ad hoc recreation committee created
Ito explore problems and needs in this field, we submitted to the 1963
Florida Legislature a proposed Outdoor recreation program of bold
concept and sweeping proportions. Our recommendations were accepted
almost unanimously, and passed into law as the Florida Outdoor
Recreation and Conservation Act or 1963.

IaJor pregress toward implementation or this challenging program,
however, must await both the completion of the comprehensive plan and
the issuance of bonds.

We have established effective liaison with both the federal and

local governments, and participated actively in Joint programming with
the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. In the midst of all this, we have
pursued the all-important planning work, and have attempted to keep

the public informed and maintain our good relations with the many people
so interested in our program.

Some of our interim work has had even more tangible results.

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This is Florida's outdoor recreation program. It in far tron
coaplcte. But progress to date foretell: even more significant
accomplishment for the future, and I an very proud to have been a

part or this auspicioaa beginning.




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