I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.