How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

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.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

There are truths which can kill a nation.

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

I learned from my mistakes, I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences and I've done that.

Close your legs to married men.

Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.