The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [. . . ] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.
It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.