Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....one friend who always makes her laugh... and one wholets her cry...

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.

There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.