“Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.”

“I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.”

“The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.”

“Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda.The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.”

“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”

“Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity.”