We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.