#mount

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#any #asked #cottage #could #habitation

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#cut #down #hypocrite #kind #make

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#cottage #great #i #live #lucas

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#bit #certain #find #fortune #four

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. ↗

— David Suzuki

#arctic #armed #brain #deserts #flourish

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. ↗

— David Suzuki

#alive #allows #amount #biodiversity #destroy

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act. ↗

— David Suzuki

#been #climate #decades #droughts #events

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#alone #centered #i #kinds #large

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#australia #did #i #invited #look

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#aspect #christmas #colorado #does #emphasized