I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!)

All living things on earth are kindred.

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or an old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable. Deer walk up…

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

In New Mexico he always awoke a young man...Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up …