“Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.” NightWaitingBlackDyingMountainLife And DeathTimberBeetles Book:The Dog Stars Source: The Dog Stars
“A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.” EarthBlackSpaceRichAirObjectsMountainOceanStructureHolesValleysSingularityBlack HoleTornadoes Author:Kip Thorne
“The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies and mountains and plains, searching for the fulfillment of that share of life's destiny which was theirs according to the plan of Nature. Their philosophers demonstrated by unaided 15 Animals reason alone that the Supreme Cathartes aura regnans had created the world especially for buzzards. They worshipped him with hearty appetites for many centuries.” WorldReasonYoungBlackAnimalDestinyPlansSkyShareCenturyMountainSeasonsPhilosopherSupremeFulfillmentEggsFedsAppetiteAurasPrairieHeartyBuzzards Author:Walter M. Miller, Jr.
“Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.” MatterCertainFallBlackMountainDistanceForestsHeightRisingSensationsSummitGeometryLoftyAnalogiesBreadthCanyonsExpanseGiddyThickness Author:Bob Marshall
“Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.” GivingChildrenStarsBlackSunTreeCreationBirthMountainAll ThingsFishesHolesSnowGalaxyWhalesBlack HoleLavaMicroorganisms Author:Matthew Fox
“The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.” CharacterSeemsBlackVoicePoetMountainTraditionalHikingLyrical Author:Robert Morgan