The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

How long will the heathens rage?

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.