There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

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.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

A giver's purse can never be paused.

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.

Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

Fame is worth less than service.

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.