#hills

They were relaxing at the top of a waterfall, in a small, still pool where the mountain waters hit an upward slope of folded granite. It was sort of a rounded bathtub, carved out of the rock throughout the centuries by the rushing river, a river so hidden that it was without a name. Just below were the falls, about a 30-foot drop into another, much larger pool of clearest water that was gathered for a respite, a compromise in the river's relentless schedule downward, between split-level decks of flat rock. Further on, the river reanimated and released into a sharp ravine, pulling westward, down through the rugged mountains and faceless forest--the Black Hills National Forest--gaining force until it joined with the rush of the Castle River, near the old Custer Trail, and was swallowed into the Deerfield Reservoir to collect and prepare for the touch of man. ↗

— Ron Parsons

#mountains #nature #river #rush #the-black-hills

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#being #beverly #beverly hills #driving #early

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#come #fields #groves #hills #live

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#beverly hills #brothers #called #children #conditions

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#been #black #blue #break #down

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#down #hills #houses #i #mountains

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#chills #get #hear #over #songs

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#best #both #dad #go #had

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#become #death #fences #get #higher

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#bad weather #came #covered #doing #everywhere