Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

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.

The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

Breathing can and should bring you into a ready-to-act condition instantly.