#mount

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. ↗

— William Hurt

#amount #being #believe #done #energy

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #experience

What are men to rocks and mountains? ↗

— Jane Austen

#mountains #rocks #men

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amount #astonishing #education #facts #form

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#baldness #bare #full #grandeur #mountain

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#certain #need #nerve #writer #you

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#circular #compass #courses #go #heights

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point. ↗

— Sean Booth

#claustrophobic #exposing #i #i think #particular

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. ↗

— Isabella L. Bird

#mountains #travel #beauty

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. ↗

— George Sutherland

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