it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

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.

Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.