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

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.