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

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

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

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

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

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.