Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

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.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect.

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.