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.
I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.
On the seashore, when I feel the waves are taking the sand beneath my feet, I keep my feet firm and deep, I stay strong!!!
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.
Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.
You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.
If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.
You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.
