Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.