The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

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.

It almost contradicts itself, " she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey is she had her way.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.