#mountains

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #nature

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

#between #covered #curtain #earth #extended

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado. ↗

— Joe Lando

#colorado #day #every #every day #farm

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #close #doing #i #mountains

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#faith #i #know #mountains #moves

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#day #dinner #down #due #go

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. ↗

— Barry Mann

#boy #bus #i #mountains #performed

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. ↗

— Jose Marti

#mountains #nations #peaks

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains. ↗

— Diana Ross

#i #i can #me #mountains #move

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. ↗

— John Moody

#big government #company #contest #country #entire