The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Ask questions. The secrets of life are hidden in questions, so ask wisely.

What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.