In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

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.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.

People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.

God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.