High places Quote by Kay Ryan

“There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we…

— Kay Ryan

“People are like their own ecosystems, little planets made up of islands and climates and forecasts. Some of us carry jagged mountain peaks, and…

— Katie Kacvinsky

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it…

— Hudson Stuck

“I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the…

— Tamara Summers

“They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at…

— Susan Magsamen

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a…

— Mark Helprin

I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Whether people are united by navigable waterways or cut off by rugged mountains or other geographical barriers has enormous cultural as well as economic…

— Thomas Sowell

“Truly landlocked people know they are. Know the occasional Bitter Creek or Powder River that runs through Wyoming; that the large tidy Salt Lake…

— Toni Morrison

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to…

— Mercedes Lackey

“Here, just below the Earth’s summit, there are towns and villages, a tangle of human lives, in the shadow of Arctic eschatology.”

— Sarah Moss