If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

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.

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.

Man's rise or fall success or failure happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.