As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

Mother Earth taught me that my angertoward nature was unfounded.And she therefore invited me to open my heart to thispossibility: so too may be my anger toward man.

You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot.” ~Maggie Mae Castro to FBI Special Agent Clive Poole

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

I am dying of hunger.