And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The thing I love most about going to the Rocky Mountain National Park is that mobile phones don't work, and there's no… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“When facing the rocky mountains, do not look for pity. Keep ascending until the mountaintop experience becomes a reality.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“If I were in the deepest coalpit of Nova Scotia, and had the Rocky Mountains piled on top of me, I would… — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“How else do you explain a bunch of nature-loving, uniform-wearing, possibly-magic head cases who believe in royal clans and shack up in… — K.C. King Copy Share Image
My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the… — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry:… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Delphinium scopulorum, better known as Rocky Mountain larkspur, wasn’t just cardiotoxic; it had neuromuscular blocking effects, shutting down a body limb by… — Gregg Hurwitz Copy Share Image
“An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“That wasn't so bad. She said, dabbing at her mouth with a napkin. What was it? That was a Rocky Mountain oyster,… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“How- how did I get here?" "It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I was asleep when our plane hit the runway, but the jolt brought me instantly awake. I looked out the window and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I spent my summers at my grandparents’ cabin in Estes Park, literally next door to Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thus pleasantly conversing on the favorable circumstances of our position as compared with those of past pilgrims and of narrow-minded ones at… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think one of the sweetest lessons taught by the Prophet, and yet one of the saddest, occurred close to the time… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Cultures of honor tend to take root in highlands and other marginally fertile areas, such as Sicily or the mountainous Basque regions… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to draw a sharp line in one's imagination between the "nature" present on the Rocky Mountain front and that… — Ted Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I was still a boy when I left the Ozarks, only sixteen years old. Since that day, I’ve left my footprints in… — Wilson Rawls Copy Share Image
As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin', I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu. And I loved deeper,… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and,… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
