"The ocean ... like the air, is..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.”

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.”

“Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.”

“Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.”

“The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.”

“Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.”

“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

“I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.”

“A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.”