It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.

Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything and I will show you someone who is insecure.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.