#mount

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed. ↗

— John Muir

#anthropomorphism #mountains #nature #nature

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. ↗

— Jeffrey Rasley

#expeditions #himalayas #memoir #mountaineering #mountains

بلدٌ يقضي فيه المرء أوقاته متطلّعاً إلى السماء متأمّلا القمم الشاهقة ، هو بلدٌ لي ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#mountains #novel #biography

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. ↗

— John Acton

#certain #country #enjoyed #free #judge

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#amount #certain #doing #mind #nothing

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#climb #mountains #out #pebble #shoe

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#because #camaraderie #certain #done #films

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#enormous #i #lot #my time #one thing

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#amount #been #direction #investments #most

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appear #cedar #colours #composed #covered