What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Freedom begins between the ears.
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.
If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.
"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey
Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
Wilderness. The word itself is music.
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