It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

We're all pretty individualistic.

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.