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

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

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.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?