It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

Happiness will teach you to live your life and pain will tell you the way.

Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.

This planet is heaven but not for human beings.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.

While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.