If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.