Occupation: Author Birth: January 29, 1927 Death: March 14, 1989
All governments require enemy governments..
The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills..
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. ….
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light..
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere..
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?.
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question..
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government..
Every moment is precious. And precarious..
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit..
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….
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 ….
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell..
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed..
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….
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….
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….
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..
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..
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….