Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

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.

Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.

He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

Have a little faith in my magic fingers

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.