I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.
The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?
Humility is a virtue when you have no other.
No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.
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