"A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs."
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"The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains."
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"I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all."
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"I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said."
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"The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant."
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"Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence."
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"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."
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"I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own."
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"Beyond here lies nothin' But the mountains of the past"
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"Within an hour I can be at the ocean, the forest, the mountains in San Francisco...But really, I fell in love with the city the first time I came out here in 2003. In addition to the natural beauty, this is ground zero for the food justice movement."
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"It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar."
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"I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!"
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"Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away."
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"Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command."
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"The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains."
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"How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on."
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"Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains."
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"Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly."
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"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
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"Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind."
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