Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

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.

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

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

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.