History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

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.

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

I agree and I disagree in the sense that I think that he [Donald Trump] has a fondness for autocrats, but at the same time, isn't he talking about like perception of defending your country.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

I like to keep my face "pretty" because then I won't be like oh my god, what are you doing here?

Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?