The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

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.

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.

Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline "Je suis desole, mon amour.

Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Like the others though,[Donald] Trump thrives when he has a clear enemy.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

Stubborness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.

I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.