“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“This is the native home of hope,” Wallace Stegner wrote of the American West.”
― DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow
― DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow
“Nothing is impossible. You are only limited by fear and even that you can overcome. —Seth Morrison”
― DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow
― DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow
“This much is sure: contagious calm will happen to the degree that we turn to him.”
― Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
― Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
“The skiing cosmos is difficult to explain to anyone not immersed in it. The act of skiing differs from traditional sports in that unlike basketball, biking or football, it requires specific orographic and meteorological phenomena. Because skiers depend on planetary forces much larger than themselves—and, like surfers, must work in harmony with them—a kind of otherworldly euphoria overtakes them when they do it well.”
― DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow
― DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow
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