Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or mountain:
“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Fogs and clouds which conceal the overshadowing mountains lend the breadth of the plains to mountain vales. Even the small-featured country acquires some grandeur in stormy weather when clouds are seen drifting between the beholder and the neighboring hills.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)