The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government..

Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your f….

May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into….

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear..

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere..

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question..

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power t….

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If yo….

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed..

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to ai….

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

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?.

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..

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called developm….

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore ….

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

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..

Without courage, all other virtues are useless..

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

Every moment is precious. And precarious..