High Mountains

Famous quotes containing the words high mountains, high and/or mountains:

“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“The house one story high in front, three stories
On the end it presented to the road.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)