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

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.