'Man is a great blunderer going about in the fog, learning by his mistakes.'

'Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,Henceforth I ask not good-fortune – I myself am good fortune.'

'Even the contradictions of life are a part of harmony in this vast, unprophetic land.'

'The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.'

'There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as highways lie to the sea.'

'The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations.'

'For every ten persons who are clipping at the green undergrowth, not more than one will stick it out to see what can be made of the tangle up the heights.'

'The lily pads always seem to know, there will be perfect afternoons.'

'Whatever form of water this is, the air above it is also, invariably.'

'It has, I know it, a charmed life. It will escape everything but a certain kind of eye.'

The Land of Little Rain