“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”

“I am my world.”

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that thats a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fel...”

“Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no ...”

“Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”

“No one at the factory can remember how long weve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and productivity continues to increase. It seems as if neither the company nor our temporary supervisor...”

“Life can be spent in an atmosphere of continuous encouragement, you will ignore the complex and it will disappear”

“The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating,over the woods with its finest transparency,glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowersunlatched my fancy.”

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wi...”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its ...”