By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

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 most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.