Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Of course I climbed Everest without oxygen, but it's not the end of the story for me. The summit itself is not… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the… — Henry Winter Copy Share Image
It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Why is nobody questioning the sanity or suicidal tendencies of Everest ascenders? It's kind of a question of framing: How do you… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
Often sit alone happy happy Thoughts somewhat far gone gone Clouds circle mountain soft soft Wind through valley swish swish Ape in… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
I don't think that within a certain amount of time we can get rid of all nuclear weapons. But I do believe… — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anticipate leveling off to end up at the desired altitude without busting through it. Use the 10 percent rule of thumb. If… — R. Padfield Copy Share Image
The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood… — E. J. Pratt Copy Share Image
Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously.… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
“White people love rock climbing almost more than they love camping. This is because the activity affords them the opportunity to be… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found… — Erik Fosnes Hansen Copy Share Image
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single… — Victor Fung Copy Share Image
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I… — Ryan Sypek Copy Share Image
I was first to understand it was boring to go with heavy shoes to base camp. When we first tried Dhaulagiri, a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
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