The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.