Boulders Quotes - Page 2

• We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, Color, Interesting

  "Man Walks on Another World". National Geographic article, ngm.nationalgeographic.com. December 1969.

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• What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.

  Al Gore

  Fire, Years, Civilization

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• The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy

  Jack Kerouac

  Cute, Thinking, Climbing

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Even if a hundred ton boulder should fall, I would be safe! When I say this, everyone laughs and wonders how. No need to try to stop it, just move out of the way. You do not have a problem if you do not try to take it on yourself. Most people suffer because they try to take upon themselves things which they do not need to.

  Koichi Tohei

  Moving, Fall, People

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• Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you’re sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart’s a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?” “Mm-hmm.” He finished his ale. “That would be love.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Heart, Drunk, Mad

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• I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

  Alan Lee

  Heart, Rivers, Tree

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• Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

  Robert Graves

  Doors, Tree, Waiting

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

  Gary Snyder

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

  Gary Snyder (2010). “Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems”, p.46, Counterpoint Press

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• I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

  Tom Stoppard

  Lines, Given, Hades

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.27, Grove Press

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• I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Work, Dedication

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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• Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

  Greg Child

  Struggle, Climbing, Feet

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

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• There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

  Ransom Riggs

  Girl, Brother, Boys

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.11, Quirk Books

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• I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.

  Diane Paulus

  Fall, Cutting, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That's how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.

  Chris Gardner

  Couple, Believe, Moving

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• Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Lakes, Decision, Way

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• It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Would Be, Towns

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.226, Courier Corporation

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• Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but they're good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers."

  Ken Wilber

  Writing, Soul, Teeth

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• I was a guest at CalArts. John Baldessari invited me out a few times. I've been there. I've been in Pasadena, taught out at Boulder, University of Colorado. And I've taught in Europe. I've lectured and taught. I've taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nigne [sp]. I was there for a couple of weeks, I was there. I've taught all over - in Switzerland, Germany.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Couple, Europe

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

  Edward Abbey

  Technology, Eagles, Ravens

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.164, Macmillan

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• He [Hern] calls his center the Boulder Abortion Clinic and he said specifically that he didn't want to hide that word. I'm deeply opposed to the politicization of language and try to avoid it when I possibly can - I don't like being manipulated by terms like pro-life or pro-choice. To me, abortionist should be as neutral as podiatrist. But again, maybe it was one battle too many, because it certainly distracted his attention from what I thought was a really sympathetic piece.

  John H Richardson

  Choices, Pro Life, Abortion

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• As soon as I graduated from high school I was off to the biggest college my parents could afford, Colorado University at Boulder, having seen students there who looked a lot like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

  Susan Schneider

  School, College, Parent

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memorable, Adventure, Sea

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.

  Jello Biafra

  Wise, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.

  I. F. Stone

  Men, Impact, Views

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