Best quiet & mountain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.”

World War Loses Greater Quiet Mountain Ocean Strikes Civil War Unnecessary Nests Firing Legion Swarms Forts Hornets

Author:Robert Toombs

“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.”

Men Doe Art Soul Country Desire House Common Trouble Sea Quiet Mountain Mark Shore Retiring Retreat Thyself

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.”

Home College Quiet Mountain Highest Towns Hills Arkansas Ozarks Surrounded By Friends

Book:Things like the Truth: Out of My Later Years

Source: Things like the Truth: Out of My Later Years

“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.”

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

“The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.”

Feels Stills Strong Inspire Quiet Mountain

Author:Brett Dennen

“We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.”

Light Wind Quiet Mountain Shadow Yellow Stirring Trunks Aspens

Author:Ansel Adams

“Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.”

War President Loses Quiet Mountain Ocean Murder Suicide Strikes Civil War Nests Legion Swarms Hornets

Author:Robert Toombs

“For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.”

Men Lasts Found Water White Land Quiet Mountain Gold White Man Short Time Winding Down

Author:Chief Joseph

“Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.”

Thinking Inspirational Sometimes Moments Motivational Environment Quiet Mountain Environmental Forests Introvert Eco Seashore

Author:Bill Bradley

“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.”

Feet Quiet Mountain Purity

Book:The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!”

Source: Millay: Poems

“We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished what I’d said was true, that we had truly left our mark on the mountain. But I knew that after the next snowfall, our angels would disappear into the whiteness and be nothing more than a memory.”

Said Moments Next Left Sides Memories Sweet Quiet Mountain Angel Mark Disappear Whiteness Quiet Moments Snowfall

Author:Richelle Mead

“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”

Stories Earth Rooms Fire Middle Quiet Mountain Weight Edges Far Away Immensity Middle Earth Marching On Quiet Room

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning.”

Said Would Be Grace Quiet Mountain Sitting Rose Surprise Endure Calm Yield

Author:Jacqueline Carey

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