There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

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.

You can't look at someone and tell what they've been through. The scars that hurt the most are never visible on the surface.~Caillen, page 243.

Some people choose to be wrong just to prove they were always right...

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

Politics is a good thing!

All photographs are self-portraits.

You're alive because of love. You're made of love.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.