He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

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.

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.

It is equally important to learn from experience and from books.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.