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.
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
Freedom begins between the ears.
The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
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 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
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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.
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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.
God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
Wilderness. The word itself is music.
I stand for what I stand on.
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
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