No place is a place until it has found its poet.

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.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Intelligence will teach you how to make a living

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

Im trying to learn how to cook.