it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

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

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.

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

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.