A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

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.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

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 patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

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

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

For parlour use the vague generality is a lifesaver.

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

Love is the highest of all qualities we can experience.

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.