I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step… — Felicia Hemans Copy Share Image
“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“A voice said, "Climb." And he said, "How shall I climb?the mountains are so steep that I cannot climb." The voice said,… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,” the Mountain declared. “Cut them out and give them to your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains.… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words -… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
“It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun,… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah,… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries.… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“When the wind blows here, it is your wind; and when the water gurgles among the rocks, it speaks only to you.… — Michael Puttonen Copy Share Image
“According to your proclivities, you may take a snow-clad Alpine peak, as it rises to the empyrean in radiant majesty, as symbol… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Finn always called it Enna's Stream. He tended to refer to most anything as belonging to her--Enna's Meadow, Enna's Mountain. When he… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars… — Joseph Rodman Drake Copy Share Image
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
