One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

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.

Laughter Is Created As An Expression Of Happiness And Joy Which Results In Health

Praying is the breath of life.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

I don't go around looking at my pictures.

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.