I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.
There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.
I'd lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I'm familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, 'Hillbilly Elegy.'
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious job you can imagine. But then my mother took me to a lecture about the solar system when I was 8, and I got hooked.
The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.
So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. But my dad had some radical beliefs. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor.
I'm from Dagestan, I'm born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.
If you live in the mountains, you long for the trees and the lakes.
As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
My aim is not just to help preserve what is left of mountain life, but to create a centre where people can study and learn about it.
My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.
The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
My family moved to Aspen, Colorado, where we had 'Avalanche Danger' days that kept us from going to school, climbed 14,000-foot peaks as part of my education, and I learned to snowboard.
In Europe, I was just a little guy... the winters in the mountains were very nasty.
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.
The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.
