The Mountains

Famous quotes containing the word mountains:

    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)

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