Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

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.

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.