Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the… — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God… — Don Young Copy Share Image
Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God,… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
It was not that long ago a bunch of researchers got on a boat and started chugging for the South Pole to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Arctic has huge glaciers, frozen waterfalls and floating ice. This is scenery on which man has left no mark, which has… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to… — Walter Munk Copy Share Image
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“You've been here before, Bell. Remember the stories you told me about wandering in the woods when you were a little girl?… — Alexis M. Smith Copy Share Image
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I am in no mood to fulminate on paper--I wish the two of us were in a room together talking of what… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
