You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

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

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

To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.

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

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.