Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.