Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window, more human than kerosene, more unctuous, more manly.

Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.

Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough

Freedom is control in your own life.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.