All living things on earth are kindred.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Life is cruel? Compared to what?