Catskill Mountain Railroad/history

Famous quotes containing the words mountain, railroad and/or history:

    “We are wearied of our huts
    And the smoky smell of our garments.
    We are sick with desire of the sun
    And the grass on the mountains.”
    —Unknown. The Grass on the Mountain (l. 11–14)

    “Though the railroad and the telegraph have been established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still looks out from her interior mountains over all these to the sea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I saw the Arab map.
    It resembled a mare shuffling on,
    dragging its history like saddlebags,
    nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.”
    —Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)