Mountains Wilderness

Famous quotes containing the words mountains and/or wilderness:

    Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.
    —Qur’An. “The Tiding,” 78:6-16, trans. by Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    The man in the wilderness said to me,
    How many strawberries grow in the sea?
    I answered him as I thought good,
    As many red herrings as grow in the wood.
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The man in the wilderness (l. 1–4)