#glacier

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#ask #did #future #future generations #generations

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. ↗

— John Muir

#john-muir #nature #wilderness #change

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#ago #earth #glacier #god #great

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#cold #glacier #grew #i #learn

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. ↗

— David Hockney

#does #east #glaciers #hills #just

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#came #depression #everyone #get #glacier

You've been here before, Bell. Remember the stories you told me about wandering in the woods when you were a little girl? It scared the crap out of you, but you went out there all alone, knee-high to a bunny rabbit, and picked berries and climbed trees and found bird nests and came home all bug-bitten and mossy. And you loved every minute of it. It made you our beautiful Arctic Bell, impervious to cold and feared by mosquitoes. Aren't you glad you didn't stay by grandma's side, darning socks and baking gingerbread? Who darns socks? Girls nobody tells stories about. ↗

— Alexis M. Smith

#beauty

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. ↗

— Don Young

#arctic #community #covered #farming #found

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#basin #before #contains #fashion #glacier