A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me.

My heart had been a darkened room for so very long, but then you found the light switch.

If you believe in yourself, anything and everything is possible.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.