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

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.

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.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.