You can trust Dolly on that; she even drew a flower on her guitar. Photo: Michael Loccisano (Getty Images)
Dolly Parton, country star, collaborative mystery novelist, and undercover producer of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has a knack for words. When she received her first dose of the COVID vaccine (which she helped fund the development of), she told those who didn’t want to get the vaccine not to behave like “some chicken squat.” When asked about Black Lives Matter in the summer of 2020, Parton said: “Obviously Black Lives Matter matters. Do you think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” When she was nominated for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, she asked to be removed from the ballot, stating that she “didn’t feel I deserved that right.”
Basically, when Dolly Parton is asked for her opinion on something, she will always put it in very memorable terms. That remains the case in a recent National Geographic article, in which Parton discusses the beauty of her home state and likens climate change to “being ugly to your mother.”
The play revolves around Parton’s relationship with the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, the area where she grew up – and which she sang about in 1972’s “My Tennessee Mountain Home.” Parton calls the Great Smoky Mountains “one of the most beautiful places on earth”, saying, “We have the brightest flowers, the widest variety of trees” and that “the Smokies have a heart of their own”.
It also mentions that Parton’s Dollywood is the largest corporate sponsor of the American Eagle Foundation, which “rescues and rehabilitates injured and orphaned bald eagles, owls, vultures and other birds,” and cites her thoughts on climate change.
“We should be more careful,” she says. “We’re just mistreating mother nature — it’s like being ugly to your mama.” Parton concludes her point by saying, “We need to take better care of the things that God gave us for free. And that we mess up so freely.”
Read the rest of the National Geographic profile, or just take Parton’s reminder to heart: It’s never good to be ugly to your mother.
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