I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

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

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.