Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.