I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

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.

Providence knows best.

Sadness is a grieve spirit.

I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us.

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.