All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.