"The bells which toll for mankind are—most of……" — Peter Medawar

More Alpine Quotes

This quote is filed under Alpine Quotes, one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It… — Walter Bonatti
• Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
• I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of… — Lance Armstrong
• The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known… — William O. Douglas
• You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very… — Eugene Ormandy
• Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the… — Thomas Hood
• Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on… — Robert Genn
• When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it:… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
• In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina. — Chris Carter
• Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing. — Michael Kennedy

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