May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Grown men do not need leaders.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as hell.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at anytime.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?