“I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.”
“Time makes you bolder, children get older, and I'm getting older too.”
“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.”
Source: Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
“I just love all this,' Walt says. 'The sights, the smells, making the effort and pushing yourself and getting something that's really hard to get. I'll fly on a plane and people will look out the window at thirty thousand feet and say, 'Isn't this view good enough for you?' And I say no, it's not good enough. I didn't earn it. In the mountains, I earn it.”
Source: Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
“—Bah, nunca lo entenderás —suspiró Zarpa Gris—. Tú no naciste en libertad. Eso marca la diferencia. Hay que nacer con sangre guerrera en las venas, o con la sensación del viento en los bigotes. Los mininos nacidos en hogares de Dos Patas nunca podrán sentir lo mismo.”
Source: Into the Wild
“Colorado and Wyoming are America’s highest states, averaging 6,800 feet and 6,700 feet above sea level. Utah comes in third at 6,100 feet, New Mexico, Nevada, and Idaho each break 5,000 feet, and the rest of the field is hardly worth mentioning. At 3,400 feet, Montana is only half as high as Colorado, and Alaska, despite having the highest peaks, is even further down the list at 1,900 feet. Colorado has more fourteeners than all the other U.S. states combined, and more than all of Canada too. Colorado’s lowest point (3,315 feet along the Kansas border) is higher than the highest point in twenty other states. Rivers begin here and flow away to all the points of the compass. Colorado receives no rivers from another state (unless you count the Green River’s’ brief in and out from Utah).Wyoming’s Wind River Range is the only mountain in North America that supplies water to all three master streams of the American West: Missouri, Colorado, and Columbia rivers.”
Source: Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains
“In those days, Doc Susie used medications interchangeably between humans and animals. That was before pharmaceutical houses discovered a fundamental economic principle. Label a medication for human consumption, and a higher price could be charged.”
Source: Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies
“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.”
Source: Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
“Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.”
Source: The Dog Stars
“Made-up names come from dreamers. Their real names were stolen long ago so they dream up new ones. They make a way out of no way, make names out of no names - pull them from the sky!”
Source: Your Name Is a Song