Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

There are never enough 'I love you's.

Life without madness is mediocrity.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

I don't want to have children...I want to date them!

I'm a man without a corporation.