#mount

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. ↗

— Clement Clarke Moore

#before #dry #flew #fly #full

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#amount #atheism #atheist #huge #i

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#better #cases #come #countries #crisis

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advertising #amount #improving #money #products

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. ↗

— Kate Seredy

#doubt #fear #heart #kill #mountains

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#been #hobby #huge #mine #mountaineering

I wanted a good place to settle: Cold Mountain would be safe. Light wind in a hidden pine - Listen close - the sound gets better. Under it a gray haired man Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao. For ten years I havn't gone back home I've even forgotten the way by which I came. ↗

— Gary Snyder

#han-shan #home

Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us. ↗

— Robert Macfarlane

#climbing #mountains #wilderness #imagination

We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#love #mountains #life