She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

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.

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.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Doubt and faith are parts of human experience, whether one views them as right or wrong. Also doubt and faith are instrumental to grasping truth in some very obvious senses.

Synchronicity happens when we align with the flow of the universe rather than insisting the universe flow our way.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

I am young and avid for glory.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

The idea that I get to travel and do what I love and call it a job is just a blessing.

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.