If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Here in the United States we're now consuming about three gallons of petroleum per person per day. That's twenty pounds of oil per person per day. We only consume about four pounds of oxygen per person per day. We're consuming five times more oil each day, here in the United States than we are oxygen. We've become the oil tribe.

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

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

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.

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