The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.