Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

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.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.