Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.

Discomfort is the sign, you are on right track.

You have something important to add, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....”— Troy Ragland

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.