It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.
They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which...
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless....
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 r...
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may...
Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.
So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.
