The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.