#sierra

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#decide #get #got #hate #held

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right. ↗

— David R. Brower

#conservation #doing #fact #faster #force

Nothing truly wild is unclean. ↗

— John Muir

#nature #sierra-mountains #wilderness #nature

And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#humor #katie-weldon #movie #robin-jones-gunn #romance

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#apply #been #beyond #caught #circumstances

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction. ↗

— Susan George

#come #control #now #out #population

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#any #asked #congo #council #course

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#hidden #sierra #treasure #valley

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. ↗

— David R. Brower

#club #conservation #earth #founded #friends

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#began #climbed #experiencing #explored #high