Alps Quote by John Milton

“Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. "Oograah" means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if…

— Terry Pratchett

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and…

— John Milton

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Inversnaid This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam Flutes and low…

— Gerald Manley Hopkins

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in…

— Matthew Arnold

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only…

— John Milton

“But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a…

— Virginia Woolf

“We had proceeded but a few days, coasting the crushing capes of rock that every where seemed to run out in a diablerie of…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted. I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in which the…

— Jean Lorrain

Blood boils, Ignition of veins Tears in lava, Burning Aura Breathe of rage, Ruin temper Blade of stare, Shattered template Fearless nerves, Submerged in…

— Louaiq8

“For many miles on either side of the river's oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other…

— Edgar Allan Poe

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

— Henry David Thoreau