The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
An empty man is full of himself.
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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