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“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”

Men I Can America My Own Existence Land Mountain Appreciate Native Native Land

Author:Martin Delany

“The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.”

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

“It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.”

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Book:Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

Source: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

“America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.”

America Lying Gone Air Sadness Huge Pure Mountain Burden Ripe Lethargy Mountain Air

Author:Ralph Steadman

“I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.”

“'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.”

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Author:Jake Gyllenhaal