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Mountains Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
- The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm…
- In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned…
- How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might…
- The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains…
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