The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.