A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

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

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

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

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.