“This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.” PeopleMindMomentsDreamResultsBloodMountainRiversUniversalAbsolutesCaptureCorpsesInhuman Book:To build a castle: my life as a dissenter Source: To build a castle: my life as a dissenter
“There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.” IfsWellsFilmBeliefTermRiskMountainCommitmentAbsolutesDevotionClimbsClimbingFilmmakingParallelsClimbing Mountain Author:Jimmy Chin
“For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.” LyingOur LivesLandSourceMountainEssentialsRiversAbsolutesPlantDesertWildlifeBedrock Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.” RealityGrowthStruggleMastersMountainEternalAbsolutesUnityCupsMidst Book:Look Homeward, Angel Source: Look Homeward, Angel
“[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed. Today it is a commonplace in all the leading universities. Peirce stood alone-a mountain peak whose absolute height might be hard to measure, but which towered above all the surrounding country.” CountryHardMightTodayScienceMountainResearchAbsolutesMathematicsUniversityMathematicalHeightDepartmentCommonplaceMountain Peaks Author:Julian Coolidge
“There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death.” PeopleNeedsBelieveKindLawConsciousnessMountainEvidenceToolsAbsolutesCourtProvidingAfter DeathLife After DeathNear DeathScientific EvidenceCircumstantial Evidence Author:Jean Ritchie