Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

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

Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

An empty man is full of himself.