Los angeles Quote by John McPhee

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never…

— D. H. Lawrence

At some stage, as the water tables are dropping and the minerals that remain in the mountains are being taken out, we are going…

— Arundhati Roy

It is because of my frontline work in the community that I am sensitive to what happens when people overreact, causing situations to needlessly…

— Phaedra Parks

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

— Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

— Nikolai Gogol

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful…

— Robert MacFarlane

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

— Jeremy Jones

“Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for living at…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“An availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor event and lead up to…

— Daniel Kahneman

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction…

— Ernst Fischer

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

— Max Mayfield