Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.