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.

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.

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.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years

The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine, ' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.

It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.