I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

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

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.