When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

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.

beberapa orang bilangsaya gilabeberapa orang bilang saya bodohnamun, beberapa orang bilang saya sedang jatuh cinta

He was changed, burned, branded, destroyed and rebuilt. And he loved it.

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.

You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it'll carry over into January.

Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.