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

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

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

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.

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.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.