We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.