It's animal by animal that you save a species.

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.