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Success is not defined by the height of the mountain we climb, but by the character we display on the journey up.
Author:
Samantha Burns
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Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
Author:
Fritz Zwicky
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Author:
William Yeats
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You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.
Author:
Link Wray
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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Tennessee Williams
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
Author:
Patrick White
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We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
Author:
Jules Verne
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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
Author:
Mark Udall
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I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
Author:
David Trimble
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.
Author:
Ryan Sypek
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New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
Author:
Simeon Strunsky
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
Author:
Georges Simenon
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The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Author:
Georges Simenon
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Author:
Kate Seredy
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I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
Author:
David Selby
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
Author:
Saadi
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Author:
John Ruskin
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
Author:
Diana Ross
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All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Author:
Alain Robert
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Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.
Author:
Herb Ritts
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I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
Author:
Janet Reno
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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Author:
Robert Pirsig
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Author:
William Penn
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China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
Author:
Li Peng
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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Author:
Jean Paul
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I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.
Author:
Scott Patterson
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
Author:
Dolly Parton
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From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Author:
Solomon Ortiz
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Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
Author:
Gale Norton
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
Author:
Max Muller
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
Author:
John Muir
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Author:
John Muir
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I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
Author:
Grandma Moses
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As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
Author:
John Moody
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I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
Author:
Bill Mauldin
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Author:
Jose Marti
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
Author:
Barry Mann
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I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.
Author:
Jena Malone
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The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.
Author:
George Mallory
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Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.
Author:
Loris Malaguzzi
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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
Author:
Alex Lowe
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It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
Author:
Alex Lowe
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
Author:
Charles Lindbergh
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I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
Author:
Daniel Libeskind
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The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.
Author:
Meriwether Lewis
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We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
Author:
Meriwether Lewis
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
Author:
David Lawrence
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I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.
Author:
Joe Lando
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
Author:
Margot Kidder
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It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.
Author:
Michael Kennedy
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I learn something every time I go into the mountains.
Author:
Michael Kennedy
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So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.
Author:
Craig Kelly
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Author:
Helen Keller
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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Author:
Horace
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Author:
Edmund Hillary
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The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
Author:
Ernest Hello
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Author:
Ursula Guin
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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
Author:
Marilyn French
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
Author:
Black Elk
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Author:
Olafur Eliasson
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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
Author:
Katherine Dunham
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Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
Author:
Julia Dreyfus
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
Author:
Dogen
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We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.
Author:
Ruth Denis
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Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
Author:
Richard Davis
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All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
Author:
Richard Davis
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I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
Author:
Rick Danko
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Author:
George Curtis
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Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle.
Author:
Bill Cullen
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I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
Author:
Ezra Cornell
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
Author:
Bill Bradley
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What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.
Author:
Anatoli Boukreev
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Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
Author:
Andrea Bocelli
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Author:
William Blake
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
Author:
Bruce Beresford
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I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Author:
Roy Barnes
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I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.
Author:
Edward Barnard
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.
Author:
Milton Avery
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
Author:
William Ashley
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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Author:
Henri Amiel
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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Author:
Muhammad Ali
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
Author:
Kate Adie
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Author:
Diane Ackerman
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Author:
Edward Abbey
