I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

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.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.