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.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.