However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.

There are three things: to walk, to see, and to see what you see.

Through my writing, I want to build an “immortal fountain of love” where everyone can come to dance and enjoy the colorful “flow of joy” and sing along with the music of love.

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many timesAnd my episodes of deathGave me the powerOver the greatest fearsThe fear of lifeThe fear of self

I don't know how to live happy, but i can teach how to live happy.

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

I think I'm not always what I seem.

You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.