Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony.
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.
Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.
A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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