I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

Dream Song:In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

Ron Atkinson was a firefighter. He came in and he stabled the club

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I believe that art has incredible power.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!