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

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.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

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

In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.