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.

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.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

I don't care so much about what you can stand or what you can manage as I do about what you like and want to have. Those are the kinds of things I want to give you, because I'm crazy about you.

Beware of those who are always hungry, for they will feed you to the wolves just to get paid.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.