#mountain

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#cannot #covered #denied #did #form

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. ↗

— David Trimble

#behind #dark #distance #forward #future

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ↗

— John Muir

#gives #glorious #greeting #how #mountains

All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010) ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#stories #dreams

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#experience

Love is a winding mountainous road. Do you have an extra unicycle and handlebar mustache I can borrow?
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #love #mountains #mustache #mustaches

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#love

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills. ↗

— Rick Danko

#here #i #mountains

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#broken #mountains #rocks #violets

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#clouds #earth #free #hour #how