The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

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.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Renewal of mind, revival of spirit.

My heart's in the Highlands my heart is not here My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

I irritate the wife because of my private dancing.

There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.