In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

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.

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

Cause I'm a redneck woman.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

As far as depths of geekiness... I have more friends in World of Warcraft than I do in real life!

What's highest and best for you is always what's highest and best for everyone around you.

Make what you most need to find

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.