If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together but I think when the prosperous nations and in particular the U.S. realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives there will be a mass change in value.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.
On the other side I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
I mean I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
After much prayerful consideration I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
As an actor there is room for a certain amount of creativity but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina skill or ability to write a novel but I'd love to write short stories and poetry because those are my two passions.
With the help of dedicated Americans from our party every party and no party at all I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
At the end the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time that she had to kind of live it completely through instead of living by the rules.
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin with a big open fire a record player and peace.
We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below and it's a valley of peace.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
A man's country is not a certain area of land of mountains rivers and woods but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
In the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape my real world.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected momentary and fleeting yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Earth and sky woods and fields lakes and rivers the mountain and the sea are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.