We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

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

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.

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

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

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