How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

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.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

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