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

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

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.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.