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Mountain Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
- Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing…
- There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking…
- When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
- He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false…
- They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain…
- The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west…
More Mountain Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Gautama Buddha
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it… — Bob Beauprez
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place… — Henri Nouwen