Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

With her mouth closed, her mind screamed.

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

Leave the door open," my dad said, the second most common warning in his arsenal. Right behind, "Nash, go home.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.