I don't like the term 'dynasty.'

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

If, in our haste to ‘progress,’ the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

I’m trying to encourage my children’s generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Washington’s a cesspool of money.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest.

Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to ‘progress.’

We’re all pretty individualistic.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world – let’s begin with that. Not just the United States.