Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.