Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

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

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.

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

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.