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

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.