Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

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.

a story is ready when it falls from your face

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.

What type of legacy do you want to leave?

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.