Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

I started out as a Democrat.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener

Disregard nuisances and obstacles, for they are merely a brush-stroke on the bigger picture

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.