American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

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.

The light of our souls is never extinguished, it can never be, as the eternal one abides within each and every heart forever

Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.

Money can buy you attention, but it can never buy you true respect.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.