It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.