It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

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.

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.