There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

It is the strength of any emotion, not necessarily its pleasantness, that makes a place important.

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.