The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.