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By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;Yet still the silver corpse must spinAnd wit...

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Julian HuxleyThe Captive Shrew and other poems of a Biologist

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of m...

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On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist....

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You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody ...

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I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, l...

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The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about ...

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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from hol...

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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just big...

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Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretchi...

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It and Other Stories

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains wil...

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But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found no...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high countr...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all t...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mou...

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We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberl...

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And when the rains were over and it was October and the birds were in song again, I could lie in the...

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Ruskin BondRain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard seaso...

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fi...

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we beh...

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William WordsworthLines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I ex...

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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains...

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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of ...

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An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

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I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's t...

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Used to be a hobo right smart. back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could d...

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You’re telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?”Kohler sh...

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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...

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Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meado...

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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...

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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, ...

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your...

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…I have never seen mountains before, and they fill me and oppress me so much that I could not sleep;...

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She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, th...

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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today...

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Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind ...

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Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a m...

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The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind...

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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have n...

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One cannot walk in such regions, consciouslywithout enlargement of thought. There areheights and val...

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Henry Stephens SaltOn Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell

I send thee, love, this upland flower I foundWhile wandering lonely with o'erclouded heart,Hid in a ...

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Henry Stephens SaltOn Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, hum...

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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the ex...

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He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from...

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ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made ...

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It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling int...

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the stor...

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The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into th...

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No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi...

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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Bapt...

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The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of the...

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I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, bu...

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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, fill...

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John MuirMy First Summer in the Sierra

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows ...

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John MuirThe Mountains of California

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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John MuirThe Mountains of California

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce...

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John MuirThe Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot sa...

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Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops...

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Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:“B...

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Jon KrakauerEiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner ...

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Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster