I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

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

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.