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- We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,…
- All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary…
- Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,…
- If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few…
- There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water…
- I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
- When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.
- From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
- The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
- 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…
- most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into…
- High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a…
- Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions…
- To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central…
- As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also…
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