In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

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

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

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