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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 16238" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dolly-Parton-2019-getty-full.jpg?w=1600&amp;h=660&amp;crop=1" alt="Dolly Parton 2019" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageIf there’s one person who could save us from ourselves, it’s probably <a href="https://uproxx.com/tag/dolly-parton/" target="_blank">Dolly Parton</a>. The legendary singer/songwriter/actor/philanthropist/<a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/dolly-parton-thriller-novel-run-rose-run-james-patterson/" target="_blank">novelist</a>/goddess is also quite the philosopher, and has a way of seeing the world that somehow makes everything clear.Take, for example, the very complicated and geopolitical matter of <a href="https://uproxx.com/tag/climate-change/" target="_blank">climate change</a>. Just ahead of <a href="https://uproxx.com/tag/earth-day/" target="_blank">Earth Day</a>, the Tennessee native <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-dolly-parton-wants-us-to-know-about-the-smoky-mountains" target="_blank">sat down with National Geographic</a> to chat about her love of the Great Smoky Mountains she grew up surrounded by, calling her home state “one of the most beautiful places in the world.”Parton is putting her money where her mouth is, too. The <a href="https://www.eagles.org/" target="_blank">American Eagle Foundation</a>, a nonprofit organization that rescues, rehabilitates, and educates the public about eagles, owls, vultures, and other birds of prey, counts <a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/dolly-parton-dollywood-college-education-paid/" target="_blank">Dollywood</a>—Parton’s iconic theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee—among its largest sponsors, and operates a bald eagle sanctuary from the park. Through her partnerships as well as her own actions, Parton hopes to encourage others to feel the same sense of stewardship over not just the places they live, but the world at large.As <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-dolly-parton-wants-us-to-know-about-the-smoky-mountains" target="_blank">Amy Alipio writes for National Geographic</a>:We don’t deserve Dolly!(Via <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-dolly-parton-wants-us-to-know-about-the-smoky-mountains" target="_blank">National Geographic</a>)<a href="https://uproxx.com/viral/dolly-parton-climate-change-national-geographic/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

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