In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

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.

Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE