Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Only the nose knows Where the nose goes When the door close.

The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.