Sierra Nevada - Mountains

Mountains

  • Sierra Nevada (stratovolcano)

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Famous quotes containing the word mountains:

    “Did you ever hear tell of Sweet Betsy from Pike.
    Who crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,”
    —Unknown. Sweet Betsey from Pike (l. 1–2)

    “The mountains look on Marathon—
    And Marathon looks on the sea;
    And musing there an hour alone,
    I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
    For standing on the Persians’ grave,
    I could not deem myself a slave.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Over the mountains of the moon, down the valley of the shadow. Ride, boldly ride, the shade replied, in search of El Dorado.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)