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

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

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.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

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

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.