After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

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

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.