Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

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

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

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

We are fossils in the making.

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.