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

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

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.

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.

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

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

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