The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

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.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.