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.

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.

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.

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

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.