The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.