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.

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

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 love you, ’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.

Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

I am just a plain, common man.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

The Chinese can devalue their currency, apparently without doing much harm to themselves. They can do this as a strategy to destroy our economy in America.