What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.