"Keep the tourists out," some tourist from Salt Lake City has written. As fellow tourists we heartily agree. - Edward Abbey

I want to be able to look at and into a juniper tree, a piece of quartz, a vulture, a spider, and see it as it is in itself, devoid of all humanly ascribed qualities, anti-Kantian, even the categories of scientific description.

Like so many American men, Hayduke loved guns, the touch of oil, the acrid smell of burnt powder, the taste of brass, bright copper alloys, good cutlery, all things well made and deadly.

"What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie."