The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.

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.

If you encounter the Savior, He will save your soul.

changing your habits is your key to changing your life

I'm a girl."When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed, " she

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

I hate to sound cliché, but it would probably be the day my daughter was born. That was a pretty amazing experience.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

As long as I can enjoy something, other people can enjoy it, too.

a setback is a setup for a comeback