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

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.

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.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.