Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.