It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

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.

Time is a fixed income and as with any income the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

In 10 years, I’d love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it’d be great to share them with someone else.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.