Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at… — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below… — James Keller Copy Share Image
You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where… — Rick Hillier Copy Share Image
All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape? — Craig Kilborn 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
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
“Deep ridges crossed his forehead like terraces in a Thai hillside, tucks in a leather cushion, troughs across a bloodhound’s jowls.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through… — Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford Copy Share Image
Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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