The High Sierra Quotes

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― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“Muir wrote, “Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away.… Through all the eventful centuries since Christ’s time, and long before that, God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand storms; but he cannot save them from sawmills and fools; this is left to the American people.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“I can say to myself as if I were A wanderer being asked where he had been Among the hills: “There was a range of mountains Once I loved until I could not breathe.” —“Morning Star” by Thomas Hornsby Ferril”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“I passed two hikers setting camp. Did you come over in that storm? Yes, I said, I left my life on the other side And now I’m not afraid. SIERRA PEOPLE (4) Mary Austin So, who was the Mary Austin who lived in that foreboding little house in Independence?”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“(See Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala for a vivid demonstration of why this is true.)”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“You never see anything like it where you live, this I can guarantee. Not one person in 10,000 lives in a place where the stars are visible like they are in the Sierra at night. Dark skies (meaning away from cities), 10,000 feet above sea level: that means thousands of stars. Watch for half an hour and see several meteors streak across the sky, sometimes at cosmological speeds, faster than anything you’ll ever see by day.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“When we traded places, I could only lead for a couple hundred yards before slowing to a snail’s pace. Sinking thigh deep made for exhausting work. Terry would take back the lead without comment. Following him, I stepped exactly in his deep snowshoe prints, feeling relief at how much easier things became when the trail was broken.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“Very little of the high Sierra makes it into its images. If you see a pretty photo from the Sierras, you always have to remember, it was a zillion times more beautiful than that!”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“all of them we went to Desolation, despite the”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story

“It is a pilgrim's spiral path leads to this mountain's brow...It can never become familiar; you are lost the moment you set foot there. You know no path, but wander, thrilled, over the bare and pathless rock, as if it were solidified air and cloud...It is as if you trod with awe the face of a god turned up, unwittingly but helplessly, yielding to the laws of gravity.
-Henry David Thoreau”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The High Sierra: A Love Story