That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

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.

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

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.

Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.