People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water – there is no help for any of these things.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don’t get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

It is no use trying to improve on children’s names for wildflowers.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.