Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.

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.

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.

Love gives you knees to crawl, feet to run, legs to sprint, and wings to soar.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

If you serve people, they will gladly serve your vision.

The only condition that miracles will come is after you have done your best.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.