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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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.


Marilyn French


#mountains #never #over #pebbles #stumble

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!


John Muir


#gives #glorious #greeting #how #mountains

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.


George Leigh Mallory


#highest #isolated #lord #magnificence #make

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?



Jarod Kintz


#humor #love #mountains #mustache #mustaches

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.


J.R.R. Tolkien


#merry #mountains #vastness #love

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.


Christy Turlington


#dream #everest #i #like #lots

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.


John Marsden


#mountains #nature #sky #freedom






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