A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.