Mountain Quotes

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If… — Victor Hugo
I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on… — Bob Dylan
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let… — Peter Singer
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there,… — John Steinbeck
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine… — Edward Abbey
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I… — Edward Abbey
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of… — Bill Anderson
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,… — Thomas Jefferson
Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and… — David Trimble
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. — Randall Munroe
Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the… — Carl Jung
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. — Robinson Jeffers

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