In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

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