"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. "
— Barbara Kingsolver

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
— John Steinbeck

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patters that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
— Cormac McCarthy

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?'"
— Aldo Leopold

"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
— Aldo Leopold

"Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language."
— Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac)

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
— Joan Didion

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley