Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

I walked into the main entrance of the White House, and I said to myself, "This is sort of amazing."

There are no good or bad people, humans are shaped by culture.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

I do really well under pressure.

Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.