I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.