I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.