Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by."
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Glaciers
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind."
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"His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted."
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