Sierra Nevada - Mountains

Famous quotes containing the word mountains:

“Without mountains one wouldn’t see the plains.”
—Chinese proverb.

“He who lets the tiger go back to the mountains will surely suffer later on.”
—Chinese proverb.

“We envy not the warmer clime, that lies
In ten degrees of more indulgent skies,
Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine,
Though o’er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine:
‘Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia’s Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)