That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.