Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.