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.
Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
Why must love always be accompanied – sooner or later – by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
I’m in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I’m an animal.
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
Life is hard? True – but let’s love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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 function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.