Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

All disease starts in the gut.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been.