The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

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

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?