Best Alpine Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?”

Art Light Mother Moon Snow Secure Silver Bows Dread Hunters Summit Cloudy Huntress Alpine

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.”

Trying Particular Paint Bees Brushes Here And There Meadows Methodology Alpine

Author:Robert Genn

“Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.”

Able Christ Danger Guides Ice Thee Horizon Get Over Compass Lashes Intercession Alpine Beyond The Horizon

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.”

“Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.”

Lying Father Forget Lord Cold Pure Mountain Stones Saint Bones Our Father Alpine

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.”

Two Three Church Praying Gay Summer Lonely Rounds Climbs Sunday Prime Peasants Sabbath Dames Chimes Alpine

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.”

Men Strong Grace Air Mountain Believer Snow Regions Communion Virgins Assurance Limbs Eagles Exploits Vigorous God's Grace Renown Alpine

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.”

“When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.”

Men Trying May Mean Doe Stills Moments Women Natural Powerful Rocks Tears Members Office Weapons Tongue Formidable Alpine

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.”

Thinking Reason Death Night Term Silent Symbols Paris Visible Adequate Explosions Celestial Arches Desolate Firmament Boulevard Alpine

Book:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].”

Levels Sea Amount Ocean Consequence Driving Ice Burning Atmosphere Fuel Trends Carbon Fossils Melting Altered Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Alpine Sea Level Rise Ocean Acidification

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to go for hikes that took me there. But my perspective was most often down at ground level, trying to see quite tiny exquisite flowers.”

Writing Trying Levels Class Happened Teaching Flower Perspective University Tiny Exquisite Colorado Alpine

Author:Martha Ronk

“Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.”

Littles Language Plant Fragile Alpine

Author:Martha Ronk

“I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.”

Writing Two Book War Stories Novel Humorous Tragedy Tired Texas 1960s Halfway Present Day About Family Austin Family Relationship War Stories Alpine

Author:Elizabeth Crook

“Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.”

“When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.”

Writing Names Path Fame Paper Climbs This Day Flash Sheets Vow Emily Alpine

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!”

Light Sea Adventure Ships Height Swings Sail Soar Eagles Anchors Alpine Antelopes

Book:The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy

Source: The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy

“The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.”

“Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.”

War Reason Feelings Dark Sun Cold Clouds Warm Realms Above The Clouds Alpine

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.”

Ifs Sound Mankind Faults Necks Bells Cheerful Harmonious Cattle Tolls Alpine

Author:Peter Medawar

“I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.”

Want Years Dies Stars Hours Hundred Miles Texas Flags Bicycle Descent Wanting To Die Helmet American Flag I Want To Die Alpine

Book:It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

“The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.”

“You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.”

“Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.”

Years Wells Funny Known Well Known Orchestra Symphony Alpine

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowly alpine river flowed And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind.”

Behinds Feet Wind Ocean Rivers Flying Landscape Sped Alpine

Author:Thomas Buchanan Read