In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.