Mountains Quotes
On the pull of high places.
These lines treat mountains as both literal terrain and metaphor—patience compared to something that can move mountains, an adventurer's need for high, remote places, and even the specific thrill of soaring off a summit. It connects to our Nature theme.
In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned...
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I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
Emotion Quotes
I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I...
To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.
The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.
After 9/11, Hekmatyar helped Osama bin Laden escape from the mountains of Tora Bora into Pakistan, and then decamped to Iran, until his presence there became a bit too inconvenient.
Majesty Quotes
I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip -...
Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments.
My wife Santa is a fanatical skier, going to Klosters many times a year. To please her, I have for 12 years tried to ski, abseil, mountain-climb, para-scend, heli-ski, land-lauf, ice-skate, toboggan, luge, bobsleigh, yodel, gulp gluhwein, dunk bread in...
Nature Quotes
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline...
I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked.
Solitude Quotes
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.
