“Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.” MountainFindingsDistanceForestsIslands Book:Fallen Source: Fallen
“The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.” ThinkingKnowsWritingTryingMindHardFacesNumbersRocksMountainFindingsOkayMetaphorHardestClimbsClimbingFunny ThingsScreenplaysClimbing MountainBlindfoldedClimbing Up Author:Michael Arndt
“Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.” MayLastsNaturePowerfulMountainFindingsLateSummerSnowJunePatchesVery Powerful Book:Midsummer Snowballs Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.” PeopleWaySaidMovingWonderfulHavensMountainFindingsExtraordinarySpendingWonderful ThingsTelescopesSpending TimeMicroscopesMove Mountains Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the Lord. Amazingly, there are no recorded cases of the holy man going up the mountain and finding that it's the others who are right. It always turns out that God wants unbelievers to suffer, and what could be more noble than to help him a little? When religion rules, toleration disappears, for you cannot cherish the verdict of death to the infidels, yet also tolerate those who disagree - for those are the very same infidels.” MenWantShouldLittlesHelpingSufferingTurnsLordCasesHolyMountainFindingsDisappearNobleCherishDisagreeTolerateOutsidersWant UVerdictUnbelieversInfidelTolerationHoly Man Author:Simon Blackburn
“One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnt there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.” WorldUsedFatherGoneStudyChangedParticularMountainFindingsMy FavoriteForestsSpotsStreamsApplesCanadaSparksSwimmingGraduatesFinancingOrchardWorld Bank Author:Vandana Shiva
“In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.” IfsBelieveRealRealityAudienceMountainEssentialsFindingsBeing RealDon't Trust Author:John Hurt
“It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.” IfsWorldWantFeelsPersonsHelpingMiddleThis WorldSafeMountainFindingsWarmValleysTrustworthyWindy Author:Daniel Handler
“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.” KnowsWorldFirstsHumansNatureAnimalStreetsGrewThousandTenMountainFindingsFirst TimeMachinesTyrannyForestsSymbolsClockCommerceBricksBrandedUntamedFootpaths Book:The Illustrated West with the Night Source: The Illustrated West with the Night