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.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

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