We write to make sense of it all.

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.

Be united like a rain

Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.

Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

There's a lot of power in putting it out in the universe. It's telling your subconscious mind, 'This is what's gonna happen.'