A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books was the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin's 'Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization' (1995),… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but Ill stop short… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top. — Roy Rogers Copy Share Image
If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The road to glory is difficult with its rocks and boulders, its strain and struggle. Things aren't always as easy as we… — Thelma Wells Copy Share Image
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him?… — Sam McBratney Copy Share Image
Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it's in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you'll see who you are. On a clear day, how it will… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars. — Dogen Copy Share Image
It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
