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.