Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

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.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

Be brave to fight for change no matter how hard it might be, first step you take will bring you closer to your goal

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!