Distant Mountains Quotes
- The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on… — William O. Douglas
- Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. — Russell Conwell
- The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. — Yasunari Kawabata
- Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for… — Winston Churchill
- True happiness is to be found within, in the state of our hearts. It does not exist on the far side of some distant mountains.… — Senora Roy
- In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of rime and naked… — John Wesley Powell