National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

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

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