A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.