Mountain Type

Famous quotes containing the words mountain and/or type:

    “A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Are God and Nature then at strife,
    That Nature lends such evil dreams?
    So careful of the type she seems,
    So careless of the single life;”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)