My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It made the kids at camp much more enthusiastic and cooperative when they had ego goals to fulfill, I'm sure, but ultimately… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day… — Judy Bonds Copy Share Image
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take… — Ariana Richards Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
“I am led to believe that any summit is achieved simply through a series of steps. However, what I’ve failed to recognize… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back… — Ivor Cutler Copy Share Image
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
“I wanted a good place to settle: Cold Mountain would be safe. Light wind in a hidden pine - Listen close -… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist… — Steve House Copy Share Image
It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Things appear different from every different plane from which you look at them, and when a person standing on flat earth asks… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The best climbers no longer go to the 8000ers, but to the most difficult mountains in the world which are 6000 or… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I stared at the river far below. "Why did you park us on the mountain? Why not closer?" Bast shrugged, as if… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
