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Glaciers Quotes by John Muir
- The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts…
- I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a…
- The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
- Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all…
- Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
- As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the…
- Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the…
- No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars,…
More Glaciers Quotes
- One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,… — Louis Agassiz
- ...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other… — Kevin E. Trenberth
- The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of… — Al Gore
- ...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely. — Gordon Brown
- He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back — A. A. Gill
- We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around,… — John Hodgman
- You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let… — John F. Kerry
- Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God,… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground,… — James Salter
- When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most… — Kim Stanley
- Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself… — William Kittredge
- Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating… — George Leigh Mallory