Wilderness begins in the human mind.

If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.