Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

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.

Whenever I see all around, I see nothing except atoms & molecules

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably illtempered in the early morning.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

Smell is the voice of the soul.

My mother's my biggest supporter.

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself.