Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.