I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

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.

IN THE END, THE JOURNEY OF THE STORY BEGINS

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

When you die it's the end of your life.