Ian Frazier Quotes

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

Siberia is a state of mind.

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

I like snow, but I don't want to live in Siberia.

The Universe is very, very big.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

Ideas are information taking shape.

People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

Money is just an idea.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.