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  • #1
    Annie Dillard
    “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 do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.”
    Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

  • #2
    Robert Macfarlane
    “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
    Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

  • #3
    Lev Grossman
    “He'd been right about the world, but he was wrong about himself. The word was a desert, but he was a magician, and to be a magician was to be a secret spring - a moving oasis. He wasn't desolate, and he wasn't empty. He was full of emotion, full of feelings, bursting with them, and when it came down to it, that's what being a magician was. They weren't ordinary feelings - they weren't the tame, domesticated kind. Magic was wild feelings, the kind that escaped out of you and into the world and changed things. There was a lot of skill to it, and a lot of learning, and a lot of work, but that was where the power began: the power to enchant the world.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

  • #4
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #5
    “Fate is a girl with scissors”
    Norah Labiner, Let the Dark Flower Blossom

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #7
    John Muir
    “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
    John Muir, Our National Parks

  • #8
    John Muir
    “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
    John Muir, The Mountains of California

  • #9
    “All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
    -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)”
    Michael Kennedy

  • #10
    Rebecca Solnit
    “A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.”
    Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

  • #11
    Isabella Lucy Bird
    “I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.”
    Isabella Bird, Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #13
    Kamila Shamsie
    “For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?”
    Kamila Shamsie, Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan

  • #14
    John Lubbock
    “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
    John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

  • #15
    Marie Lu
    “Clouds suit my mood just fine.”
    Marie Lu, Champion

  • #16
    Sanober  Khan
    “I want to read every book that’s written
    hear every song that was sung
    I want to gaze at every cloud
    and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.”
    Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

  • #17
    Tom Robbins
    “A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops. Chestnut blossoms, weary from having been admired all day, wore faint smiles of anticipation.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #18
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #19
    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

  • #20
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #21
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #22
    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

  • #23
    Anne Frank
    “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #24
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #25
    John Muir
    “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
    John Muir

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #29
    Jenny Holzer
    “Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.”
    Jenny Holzer

  • #30
    Jenny Holzer
    “Protect me from what I want.”
    Jenny Holzer



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