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Mountains Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to…
- Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must…
- On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.
- I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there…
- I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience…
- The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the…
More Mountains Quotes
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the… — Edward Abbey
- Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake
- Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder. — Andrea Bocelli
- It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett
- Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this… — Bill Bradley
- If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty… — Bill Bryson
- If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed,… — Maurice Chevalier
- Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel