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.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

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.

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

We refused to be what world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.