The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.