May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.