I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.