Quotes About Tundra

#1. Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.

Jay Parini

#2. Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. I'm a tundra with wind endlessly blowing a hollow tunnel through me.

Poppet

#4. If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

Linda Sunshine

#5. Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish. -And we're no different you're saying- We are, soldier. We possess the privilege of choice. The gift of foresight. Though often we come too late in acknowledging responsibilities ... .

Steven Erikson

#6. Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

Frances Beinecke

#7. Industrialists, who turn the Amazonian jungle into useless tundra or cement over half the planet, are not, for some reason, machine-gunned en masse, nor captured and exhibited, nor do they have their teeth extracted and carved into little men.

Heathcote Williams

#8. Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.

Hal Borland

#9. We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

Steve Sabol

#10. I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting ... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

Joss Whedon

#11. To be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death - or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.

Eoin Colfer

#12. My backup plan is to challenge Bearbreaker to single combat, defeat him, become Queen of the Zerkers and spend the rest of my life riding a giant motorcycle over frozen tundra.

D.D. Barant

#13. We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

Garrison Keillor

#15. The Finns are part of the Finno-Ugric group of peoples, and are related to many different indigenous peoples that stretch right across the belt of forest and tundra regions of Russia and Siberia, as far as the Pacific.

Tim Cope

#16. Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

Palmer Cox

#17. But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#18. This inferno of contagion destroyed thousands of societies and millions of people, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from California to New England, from the Amazon rainforest to the tundra of Hudson Bay. It is what destroyed T1, the City of the Jaguar, and the ancient people of Mosquitia.

Douglas Preston

#19. The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

Max Tundra

#20. Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

Thom Yorke

#21. I would like to die
as I have lived
disappear among the tundra winds
be transformed into birdsong

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

#22. We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in and fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected onto Plexiglass.

Blake Crouch

#23. I've seen fire, and I've seen rain. I've also had to scramble over tundra to get to the Super Bowl and seen baseball turf fields that could fry a fielder's soles.

George Vecsey

#24. Tool interrupted, 'do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.

Steven Erikson

#25. But Christian ... he was unique, a rose blooming in a frozen tundra.
Had Christian been a woman, he might have married a king. As a man, he could have any woman's bed, or all of them.
He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.

Eli Easton

#26. Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the winter, which means they'll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected.

George W. Bush

#27. Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

Einar Skjaeraasen

#28. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Matt Groening

#29. Choose your favorite spade and dig a small, deep hole, located deep in the forest or a desolate area of the desert or tundra. Bury your cell phone and then find a hobby.

Nick Offerman

#30. I'll travel the sub-zero tundra
I'll brave glaciers and frozen lakes
And that's just the tip of the iceberg
I'll do whatever it takes
To change

Owl City

#31. She resided in Rock Cove, Maine - or the Lobster Tundra, as she'd jokingly dubbed it - had no job, and lived off a meager supplemental income from the government. Every day since the move, she thanked Jesus and her mother for teaching her to hoard her money like an old woman hoarded cats.

Dakota Cassidy

#32. Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

David Suzuki

#33. Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

Max Tundra

#34. There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

Max Tundra

#35. It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

Max Tundra

#36. I love playing the drums - I really get a lot out of it - but I don't think I'm a good enough drummer to be playing live drums on all 10 tracks on my album.

Max Tundra

#37. I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.

Max Tundra

#38. Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.

Max Tundra

#39. People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.

Max Tundra

#40. Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

Max Tundra

#41. The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

Max Tundra

#42. When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.

Max Tundra

#43. I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead of getting obsessed with the girl, I write about the clothes I'm wearing.

Max Tundra

#44. I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

Max Tundra

#45. The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.

Max Tundra

#46. I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.

Max Tundra

#47. When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.

Max Tundra

#48. It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

Max Tundra

#49. What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

Max Tundra

#50. A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

Max Tundra

#51. Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

Max Tundra

#52. I love playing piano, too, but I don't sit around doing it all day. Part of that's because I don't have one in my house - I only have synths.

Max Tundra

#53. I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.

Max Tundra

#54. I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

Max Tundra

#55. Making music is a total hassle, really.

Max Tundra

#56. I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.

Max Tundra