Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.