Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

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

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.