As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

What you theoretically know vividly realize.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That's a bit much.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.