Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.