It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

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.

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

Magnificent God.Mighty God.Merciful God.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

I've always been old at heart.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.