Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.
I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can learn something from the rock, but you need to communicate with element. You have to be part of the element, not fight it.
I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.
Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.
You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i. e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.