Glaciers Quote by John Muir Download Open image “Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.” — John Muir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Glaciers Grind Life Writing
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the… — Madelaine Standing Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land. — David Almond Copy Share Image
Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind. — David Baboulene Copy Share Image
“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.” — R.S. Lehner Copy Share Image
“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Here are the roots of all the life of the valleys, and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal flux of nature manifested.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle… — John Muir Copy Share
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir Copy Share Image
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention… — John Muir Copy Share
Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle… — John Muir Copy Share
If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers. — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you… — Brian Boitano Copy Share
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did something that would make the writer not want to see that family again. I wanted to see my family. I wanted to celebrate them. I was proud of who we were, in the wilderness, floating down rapids or… — Leigh Newman Copy Share
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open… — John Muir Copy Share
“I am in no mood to fulminate on paper--I wish the two of us were in a room together talking of what matters most,… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
