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- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
- My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind…
- The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable…
- Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,…
- A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army…
- Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
- All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if…
- In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
- Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
- Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
- Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
- Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the…
- What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
- Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and…
- The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they…
- And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
- Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,…
- 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.…
- I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as…
- 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…
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