Wherever two human beings are alive, together, and happy, there is the center of the world. - Edward Abbey

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.