The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them...
The mountains of the Great Divide are not, as everyone knows, born treeless, though we always think of them as above timberline with the eternal snows on their heads. They wade up through ancient fore...
The title of this Chautauqua is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, not Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing, and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very littl...
Towards four o'clock the dew fell, and she smelled a gust of sweetness from the roses and a paleness showed in the sky to the East. It was cold; the wetness was cold on her hands and she felt her skir...
Well you needn't have any 'feelings' about mountains, said Philip. Mountains are all the same - just tops, middles and bottoms, sometimes with sheep on and sometimes without.
When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.
You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.
You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all the time and the changes aren't always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there are...
You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway? Came the inquiry.Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?It is called KarakalI don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high?Over twenty-...
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high p...
…I have never seen mountains before, and they fill me and oppress me so much that I could not sleep; I must keep awake this first night, and see that they don’t fall on the earth and overwhelm it. [-...
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