We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

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.

For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.

Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.