Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

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

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.