262 Mountains Quotes for You to Enjoy

Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circus around them. They're so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles. Stephen Frears

Day You Tough Mountains Insane Circus Out Through Around Climbing Go Off Up Going Them Cycle Miles Cyclists

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. Steve Erickson

Mountains Angeles Cleavage Like Most Los Singular Hang Shoulders Santa Santa Monica Among Ornament Monica Necklace

The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past. Sue Hubbell

Old Past Mountains Worn Geological

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on. Tamae Watanabe

Nature Generation Natural People Will Become Mountains Doubt Consequences Our Destroy Vital Like Learn Without Understand Climb Surroundings Children Want Experiencing Interest Them Us Next Next Generation Who Suffer Need Appreciate

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government. Tara Westover

Education Government People Take For Granted Public Education Father Doctors Mountains Hospitals Take Had Idaho Institutions Been Public Granted Who Many Raised

A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television. Tariq Ali

War World Seen Country Mountains Every Television Crossing Brutal Beyond Blew Waged Southeast Storm Against Asia Asian Poor Then Vietnam Across Sea Europe Swept Started Every Night Night

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. Tim Cahill

Wind Mountains Eastern Around West South Get Us Hard Here

As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders. Tim Pratt

Home Experience Mountains Older Living Sides Dramatically Carolina Borders Some More Both Both Sides Tennessee Had Between California Misty Got Line North North Carolina Blue Refugees Literal

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose. Tom Bodett

To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb. Tom Sturridge

Mountains Broadway Broadway Show Climb Doing Person Wanted Show English

I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here. Tommy Flanagan

Love Time Day Home News Me Every Day Phone Gorgeous Mountains Live Every Back Bit Tell Bad Degrees Only Bad News Glasgow Takes Spoilt Miss Most House Got Am Go Malibu Scotland Now Mum Her Here

The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors. Tristram Stuart

Environmental World Mountains Other Other Countries Running Computers Countries Dump Up Account Authors Currently Manufacture Hardware

In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside. Troy Polamalu

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I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive. Vera Farmiga

Thrive Mountains Part Moss Dense Patches Wood Warm Require

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. Wil S. Hylton

Time You Man Destruction Will Mountains Bittersweet See Proof Cases Never Like Most Obvious Private Escaped Front Again Apart Acre Painful Oriental Gardens Vine Right

Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here. Will Hobbs

Home Me Natural Mountains Own Corners Seven Draw Has-Been My Own Area Take Rivers Since Know Well Been Personal Southwest Personal Experiences Experiences Place Which Canyon Novels Four Here

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains. William Devane

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border. Salman Rushdie

Man Old Plants Insects Somewhere Mountains Believe Living Border Cave Wandering Old Man Us Many Bin Image

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references. Ueli Gegenschatz

I'm not really sure what defines 'success in the real world' to be honest! It's so objective once you graduate, some people work, some people start families, some go looking for themselves up mountains in Peru. Zawe Ashton

Success Work You People World Some People Looking Mountains To Be Honest Once Defines Some Objective Sure Real Go Up Families Graduate The Real World Real World Themselves Really Peru Start Honest

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