The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.

A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.