In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.