I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.