We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

...един добър мъж е толкова силен, колкото е нужно на подходящата за него жена.

There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply hope that overtime, the positive outweighs the negative.

Vulnerability of all the emotions is the one that is most often mistaken for weakness. In reality however the opposite is true

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.