Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.