The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.