There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

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