All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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.
The one thing. . . that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. . . . Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.