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

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.