Sierra Nevada - Mountains

Mountains

  • Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano)

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Famous quotes containing the word mountains:

    “Fogs and clouds which conceal the overshadowing mountains lend the breadth of the plains to mountain vales. Even the small-featured country acquires some grandeur in stormy weather when clouds are seen drifting between the beholder and the neighboring hills.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The mountains will be in labor and bring forth a ridiculous mouse.”
    —Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)