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.
Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.
A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
Though I’ve lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.
How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.