“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.” GivingLongLightPainSunSeaThousandMountainHighestCaughtIslandsGloriousShadeThickBurnedFrozenLiquidMeadowsGreetingsStreamingNotchesExcursionsSpires Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.” MenBookLyingChristSeaSkyLandTaughtLessonsLettersGoldConstantPatientSoilShoreToilPalmsFrozenVioletTranquilAlphabetCarpenterIncessantly Author:Joaquin Miller
“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” IfsDoeReadingLiteratureBreakSeaIceFrozenLiterary Works Author:Franz Kafka
“Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.” HumansEyeFacesLyingLossSeaSadnessIntellectualPityStaringLockedFrozenDisgraceHuman Faces Author:W. H. Auden
“Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown; And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home,-- A home, if such a place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!” IfsMayHomeYoungTeachAirSeaSpringWingsWaveWarmWideIceCrownsFrozenUp And DownStormyFoam Author:Bryan Procter
“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.” BookSeaLibraryFrozenBook Readers Author:Franz Kafka
“Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.” MindHandsTodayPastMemoriesForgetFateTreeSeaSkyCrazyTomorrowSorrowLet MeWaveDrivenRingsRuinsSmokeBeachSandFrightenedTake MeDiamondFrozenTwistedCircusOf My MindWindy Author:Bob Dylan