It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

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.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".

May the grace of God be the goodwill to all mankind.

It's a pleasure to create a smile on people's face, and a gratification to see it on the people you love.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can’t even imagine and has gone through horror that I can’t even imagine.

When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes over time, as we change, right?

I've been dreaming of mirrors. Millions of mirrors, reflecting people to death.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.