Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

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.

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

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

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

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.