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

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.