A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Even though Laverne and Shirley were always, like, submitting themselves for medical testing and falling asleep on a date or whatever, they always had each other's back.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

I don't play video games.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another