The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.