It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

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.

Getting to that place of no thought, is not only a spiritual workout, it is enthused bliss for the soul.

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

Everyone dreams of driving a Ferrari, it was my intent fromthe start.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.