Washington's a cesspool of money.

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.

Everyone on earth is afraid of losing his/her life, and only a few are afraid of losing their time.

I guess I just don't get the point. It's like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if, A: It's never gonna last, andB: It hurts like hell when it's over?

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.