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

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

I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

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

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

A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here.