Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

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 grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue?

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Step forward, use your voice, get out in the world, and live!

It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.