The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling,… — Yuichiro Miura Copy Share Image
You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Free soloing is just the most natural way man can climb. It's just using your hands and feet without any use of… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's… — Mark Cavendish Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just… — Phillip Lim Copy Share Image
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
“Explore the tranquillity of the mountains, and find courage. Allow serenity to radiate from the mountains and change your atmosphere.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I like all of the typical hard rock bands. I'm an AC/DC fanatic. I love ZZ Top, just about any Van Halen,… — Mark Mendoza Copy Share Image
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
The experience of climbing Kilimanjaro affected me so powerfully that, for a long time afterward, if I caught myself saying, "I'm not… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
Now-what’s our game plan?” Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants––packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood,… — David Moles Copy Share Image
This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism,… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
