Quotes: mountains
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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.
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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.
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A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
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All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
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And he says that the mountains are fairer For once being held in your thought;
Source: East and West Poems, Part I His Answer to Her Letter -
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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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.
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
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For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.
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For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.
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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.
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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.
