So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

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 wilderness is a place for spiritual rebirth.

Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

You can't look stupid if you're having fun.

I want to come back as me.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

Being able to check your balance on the phone is the best invention ever.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.