From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

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.

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

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied.

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.