Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.

Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.