A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.