Mountains Quotes

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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to… — Rajneesh
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the… — Andrew Peterson
The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours?… — Greg LeMond
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough. — Stuart Briscoe
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the… — Black Elk
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this… — William Blake
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the… — Leonardo da Vinci
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast… — Saint Augustine
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains. — Mike Caro
Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains? — Unknown Author
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family… — David Selby
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a… — Fritz Zwicky
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring… — Martin Luther

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