Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

There are no vacant lots in nature.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.