Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

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.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

Only entropy comes easy.

Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.