“We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.” MenStatesUseHomePurposeTurnsWaterSeeingLandPolicyHe ManMountainOriginalsPropertyForestsEducatedFarmsAmendmentsPreservationDomainTwistedDinosaursPacificSlopesLead InEducated ManPublic DomainRocky MountainUses Of Water Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.” StillsHomePerfectTypeMountainModelsConcernedFemaleSuperiorsPurityDisplayVenusLovelinessFemale BeautyMale Beauty Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain
“The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.” GivingWholeFeelingsHomeFunnyStarsCitiesCuttingOne DayMountainHollywoodStrikesImpressionRemoveLos AngelesBowlsMovie StarImpermanence Author:Allan Sherman
“Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.” HomeLastsStarsWaterForgetHeardSeaMountainShiningWaveWideSpeedCradleLuminousTranquil Author:Matthew Arnold
“I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.” StillsDifferentHomeBeautifulEnergyEnjoyWalksMissingMountainOceanNeatTorontoVancouverNeighbourhoods Author:Laura Mennell
“If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.” IfsWayHomeGrowsGrowing UpStrangeProudMountainMembersSnowLiftsHorizonCrowns Author:Margaret Craven
“There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.” HomeBeliefShapesMountainStonesRootsMarkSticksDesertComing HomeRejoiceAncestorGenesCoastSticks And Stones Book:No Defense Source: No Defense
“I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.” HomeRunningNextStuffTreeMinutesDogExerciseOne DayMountainTrainingAreasWeightBrilliantHillsNext DayMy DogCircuitsPull UpsCircuit TrainingHills And Mountains Author:Bear Grylls