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

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.