It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for 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.

No drowning man can know which dropOf water his last breath did stop

In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don’t like.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.