I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

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.

Remember, pain and misery are transient and ephemeral but love has the healing power, which is eternal.

To see the unseen, you must see through the beauty of love.

The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.