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“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.”

“Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.”

Way Earth Faces Forget Failing Feet Mountain Harmony Spread Wide Lovely Thee Landscape Majesty Weariness Steep Rocky Mountain

Author:William C. Bryant

“He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.”

Wells Healing Wind Drink Mountain Senses Controlled Moderates Food And Drink Rocky Mountain

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.”

Way Two Running Beautiful Nice Dog Mountain Rivers Grandmother Two Ways Nice Friend Rocky Mountain

Author:Margot Kidder

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”

Peace Mountain Firm Rocky Mountain

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.”

Ifs Courage Exercise Mountain Lowest Discouraged Pits Nova Scotia Novas Good Courage Rocky Mountain

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!”

Earth Sky Mountain Clouds Horizon Covered Thick Curtains Morrow Earth And Sky Fatality Rocky Mountain

Book:From the Earth to the Moon

Source: From the Earth to the Moon

“I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.”

Doe Might Five Seeing Mountain All Time Explanation Warning Slaughterhouse Five Slaughterhouse 5 Slaughter House 5 Slaughter House Five Rocky Mountain

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.”

People Two Country Wind Cold Mountain Fairs Accounts Rocky Mountain

Book:History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

Source: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

“Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men”

Men Looks Littles Sometimes Fighting Figures Fields Mountain Labor Silent Camps Coal Grim Grown Man Rocky Mountain

Author:Mother Jones

“In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.”

Facts Natural Mountain Majors West Attraction Canyons Erosion Grand Canyon Rocky Mountain

Author:Dave Barry

“And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.”

Firsts Saws Air Mountain First Time Blue Denver Snowy Rocky Mountain

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.”

Ifs Believe Long Enough Doors Mountain Summer Back Doors Rocky Mountain

Book:Tugman's Passage

Source: Tugman's Passage

“My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.”

Way Firsts Humans Shows Human Beings New York Development Mountain Edges Making Money Brutal Eastern Housing Rocky Mountain

Author:Robert Adams