Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

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.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.