We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.

The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?