A world without open country would be universal jail.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

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

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.