You okay now ?" he asked. "Okay. " He tightened his arms and lifted me off my feet. "Mercy?" he growled into my ear. I wrapped my legs around his waist. " Yeah" , I said. "Me too.
The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.
I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.
There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.
If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.
The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now. Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.
With goals you can create the future in advance.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.