Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

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.

Let your ambitions fly, let nothing hold you back.

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

They that make laws must not break them.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

Partying isn't every aspect to my personality.