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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Whatever happens, I'll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

Small things amuse small minds.

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.