Wilderness. The word itself is music.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.