What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it come as something magical, for when I rise in the coal black pre-dawn and kneel by the hearth to make a fire, he pushes himself blandly between me and the kindling splits I have laid in the ashes, and I must touch a match to them by poking it between his legs. Such faith , I suppose, is the kind that moves mountains.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.