I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

I wake up to write stuff down all night. Useful things like this: To more efficiently make love nocturnally, I must combine the best characteristics of bats, bears, and my Uncle Norman who disappeared in...

Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated...

This isn’t about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

From Greenland’s icy mountains, / From India’s coral strand, / Where Afric’s sunny fountains / Roll down their golden sand.

If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell...

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 Karakal””I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it. Is is very high?””Over twenty-eight...

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

This is a classic ‘La Nina’ pattern, with snow accumulating in the Northern Colorado mountains during the midwinter months.

If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn’t enough.

May those who are still hidden in the mountains hear me. I am not going to give you a truce,

How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end – to know there’s no...

Colorado and Wyoming are America’s highest states, averaging 6,800 feet and 6,700 feet above sea level. Utah comes in third at 6,100 feet, New Mexico, Nevada, and Idaho each break 5,000 feet, and the rest...

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun,...

They were relaxing at the top of a waterfall, in a small, still pool where the mountain waters hit an upward slope of folded granite. It was sort of a rounded bathtub, carved out of...

I’m part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it’s like I’m breathing through them.

I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up; and 4 days walking on the Inca Trail, then more in...

I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot say, unless it could be that morning came over the peaks of the...

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn’t. All that space, waiting.

The hills and mountains on your ways are going to be removed. But remember that’s what should happen when God gives you the shovel. Use your gifts; it’s the escape route!

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to...

Drømme tåler ikke å bli virkeliggjort, sier dikterne, for da dør de. Her gikk den lys levende og i all sin høireiste glans like lukt ind i sin jordiske inkarnation – i et fjorten hundrede...

just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I’dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on...