Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Life: another day, another dolor.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist.

There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.