Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

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.

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

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.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

We're all pretty individualistic.

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