The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

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.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

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

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.