If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly