Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.