America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

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

You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

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

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.