I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

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.

Here in your heart, deep in your soul, resides the universe’s collective wisdom, waiting for expression through your life’s experience.

I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.

The mirror ever lies.

Revenge is never the answer

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.