Andrew O'Barton

“…in the world of mountains, there will always be someone doing something bigger, better, and crazier”
― Christine Reed

“But for the time being, around my place at least, the air is untroubled, and I become aware for the first time today of the immense silence in which I am lost. Not a silence so much as a great stillness - for there are a few sounds: the creak of some bird in a juniper tree, an eddy of wind which passes and fades like a sigh, the ticking of the watch on my wrist- slight noises which break the sensation of absolute silence but at the same time exaggerate my sense of the surrounding, overwhelming peace. A suspension of time, a continuous present.”
― Edward Abbey

“The past doesn’t always know the future. When we decide it’s time to grow and change, it’s not our past that tells us how. We look ahead at who we want to be and seek out a path to get there”
― Christine Reed

“You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire