Bigs Quote by William Henry Ashley

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

— William Henry Ashley

The mountains were there and so was I.

— Maurice Herzog

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

— William Wordsworth

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

— Arthur Rimbaud

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as…

— Collis Potter Huntington

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated…

— Jaggi Vasudev

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

— Henry David Thoreau

Typically, settlements, habitations, roads and major trails are in river valleys and on bodies of water. If you are lost, your best bet is…

— Steven Rinella

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

— Laozi

Wading River was a gorgeous place to grow up and I feel very lucky there was a wood by our house where I could…

— Adam Conover

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

— Nobu Matsuhisa