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

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

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

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.