Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.