Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

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

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.