Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.