The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their… — Steve House Copy Share Image
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As you navigate your journey, you will encounter mountains and valleys, and you will have to make some decisions: will you complain… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“I saw a guy faint at the W. M. Keck Observatory, he stepped out from the tour group and said to me… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul. — Anthony John Patrick Kenny Copy Share Image
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and… — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius Copy Share Image