To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.