Sierra Nevada - Mountains

Mountains

  • Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano)

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Famous quotes containing the word mountains:

    “In the mountains there are thousand-year-old trees, but in the towns there are hardly any hundred-year-old people.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is the sorrow; shall it melt? Ah, water
    Would gush, flush, green these mountains and these valleys
    And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands.”
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