One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

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.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Those who can confidently say they are living a life of passion are creating and contributing towardsmaking this world a better place.

When you get to the junction of choices, ponder!

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this reign of terror continue?

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

I had absolutely no idea of how I was supposed to play. I never learned music! I was just thinking: "if anyone can do it, I can do it too."