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“I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.”

Stills Mountain Pilots Enthusiastic Walkers

Author:Paul Nurse

“The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.”

Stills Fate Mountain Lonely Sunset Valleys Soar Scorn Desolate Flare Forlorn

Author:Robert W. Service

“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”

Stills Earth Sky Son Mountain Ambition Laughter Raises Vain Toil Madmen Surveys My Ambition

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq

“The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.”

Writing Humans May Stills Lasts Dies Written Heard Mountain Speech Leaving Wave Remembered Sand Fewer Fades Echoes Discourse Permanence Fade Away Tokens Human Thought Tidal Waves

Author:Albert Pike

“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.”

Stills Home Perfect Type Mountain Models Concerned Female Superiors Purity Display Venus Loveliness Female Beauty Male 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

“One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.”

Mind Stills Felt Nature Mountain Stones Rolling Jumping Builder Chasms Scaffolding

Author:J. E. H. MacDonald

“I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.”

Children Stills Mountain Wave Obstacles Native Rave

Book:The works of John Ruskin

Source: The works of John Ruskin

“From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.”

Stills Night Fall Three Behinds Wall Calling Thousand Ten Mountain Hundred Miles Boat Dawn Monkeys

Author:Li Bai