We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.