The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.