God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

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.

The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.

I know a lot of things about you, Garth...And I'm rooting for you anyways.

Members of the press sometimes print things that aren't true.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.