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.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.