Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.