Red Mountain Quotes

“At some point in your life you have to decide to throw the anchor and accept that your home isn’t perfect, but it’s home. And your friends and lovers aren’t perfect either, but they’re what you’ve got, and you damn well better love them.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“Now,” Joan said, “we’re going to practice some visualization. If you can create something in your mind, you can create it in your physical world as well. I want you to picture yourself on this day a year from now. Picture where you are. Where you want to be. Picture what you’re wearing. All the way to your socks and shoes. What are you doing? Who are you with? What do you smell? What do you feel like? Every detail. That’s you.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“There’s a book I had to read in college that I’ve just picked up again called Psycho-Cybernetics. It’s all about having the right image of yourself, the correct one. The one that you truly are, the one that wants to be successful. If you see that true image of yourself, you will grow into it. If you see a negative image, that’s what you’ll grow into. It’s time you accept that you’re made for greatness, and you need to put on your seatbelt because your life is going to be one wild ride. One amazing storybook ride.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“The closer you get to people, the harder it is to love them. But you have to love them anyway. You have to work at it. And you can’t walk away from them. That’s what love is. As”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“Growing and making wine was the purest of art forms: to work the land all year—to work with the land all year—to bleed and sweat and toil through the seasons, to bring in the harvest and guide the juice all the way to a bottle, and to share that bottle with the world. To share the fruit of a time and place. To help people smile.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“She was so good at stopping to notice life. At any given moment, she’d say, “Do you smell that?” Or, “Do you hear that?” Or, “Do you see that?” They’d go for a walk and she’d see a dog she’d never seen before and be totally captivated. She could watch this dog forever, it seemed. Or she could pick a flower and hold it in her hands for an hour. She found magic in the littlest things: the sound of her chimes on the deck blowing in the wind, the shapes of the clouds, the shimmer of the morning.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“Each day runs into the next, like it does for the soldier, the jobless, the homeless, or the musician.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“She took her journal out and read her belief statement out loud, though not loud enough for Jasper to hear in his room, where he was preparing for school. She finished, repeating several times, “Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“It’s all about having the right image of yourself, the correct one. The one that you truly are, the one that wants to be successful. If you see that true image of yourself, you will grow into it. If you see a negative image, that’s what you’ll grow into. It’s time you accept that you’re made for greatness, and you need to put on your seatbelt because your life is going to be one wild ride. One amazing storybook ride.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“sulfur dioxide additions to a minimum, but as Otis had taught him, a small amount was crucial to protect the wine.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“reminding”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“For the rest of her life, Emilia would try to reconnect with the inner child that left her that day.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“Jeremejevite.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“do you have to cross every line you come upon?”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“Her home stood on the lower part of Red Mountain, below Col Solare, a winery owned by St. Michelle and the Antinori family.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“take in a huge breath through your nose. Fill your abdomen. And hold”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“You can be whoever you want to be out here. Some might judge you and talk about you behind your back, but so long”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“about creating a magical environment, so that when people tasted the wines at a later time in another place, they would be transported”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“It was about committing to a piece of land, to an area; not simply by planting vines, but by building a community, an ecosystem where animals thrive, where healthy children are raised with great ambition; a place that people talk about all over the globe, a place chefs come to open restaurants in hopes of finding that perfect pairing or perhaps connecting with farmers to bring back an old heirloom grain.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“the magic of this world was in breathing and coming alive and being in the present moment, each cell in his body lighting up and glowing.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“compelling story is more important. No wonder education is taking a nosedive in the U.S. They’re not teaching people to love to read. They’re cramming a stone-age curriculum down our throats.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“Red Mountain Boo Walker”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“The closer you get to people, the harder it is to love them. But you have to love them anyway. You have to work at it. And you can’t walk away from them. That’s what love is.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“You can talk about that time you got your pants pulled down in middle school to exhaustion; how you could have prevented it, who remembers it, what the implications truly were—and this overthinking is never going to help you get over the experience. The only solution is to move on and be in this moment. Your pants aren’t down now. That was a long time ago. It’s all about this moment.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“For a couple weeks now, Otis had been struggling with his sense of smell and taste. When he first noticed the symptoms, he chalked it up to a cold or a hiccup of growing old; perhaps a result of too many hours spent with his tobacco pipe as of late. But his condition was getting so bad that he might be incapable of making wine this year.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“What shall we say, shall we call it by a name As well to count the angels dancing on a pin Water bright as the sky from which it came And the name is on the earth that takes it in We will not speak but stand inside the rain And listen to the thunder shout I am, I am, I am, I am -John Perry Barlow”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“The most important thing you have to find is happiness. Be who you’re supposed to be.” “You”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain