There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.

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

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

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

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.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.