Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

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.

Our age has need of violence, " he writes. And he is violence.

To teach, learn. To learn, teach.

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

I lead a very conventional life.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.