Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

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.

Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.