I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

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Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

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One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

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The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

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Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

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