The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
With Tatars, the situation is a little bit more complex. They are geographically very isolated so they need the rest of Russia.… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's… — Lincoln Hall Copy Share Image
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting,… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
“If the fitter climbers had been able to move at their own speed that day there would probably have been a process… — Mike Trueman Copy Share Image
The Humpback Trail on New Zealand's South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain,… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“free life” as described by a mountaineer: “The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I was the offbeat character that had to kiss the offbeat boys and, ugh, some of the boys they brought in. There… — Andrea Barber Copy Share Image
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even… — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) "It is my name," Athos said calmly.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Then there’s the challenge. If I only climb easy routes, I get bored. Besides I usually find the harder routes more impressive.… — Chris Noble Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the GR20, traversing the rugged mountains of Corsica, is one of the top trails of the world.… — Paddy Dillon Copy Share Image
Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
