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"While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains."
"Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge."
"Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries."
"So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened."
"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against."
"A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well."
"A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller."
"I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud."
"Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather."
"Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley."
"Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset."
"You can't climb a smooth mountain"
"Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain."
"Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see."
"I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success."
"Just let your love flow like a mountain stream And let your love grow."
"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
"Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side."
"I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely."
