Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.

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.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.

I recently bought the box set of 'Doctor Who' and watched it back to back, Unfortunately I wasn't the one facing the TV!

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.