All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.