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  • Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love.

    Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.165, Paulist Press
  • How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America
  • Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

    Men   Jewels   Rivers  
    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin
  • Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

    Love   Life   Yield  
    "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)
  • I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud.

  • Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

    "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 76e), 1980.
  • May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

    Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press
  • Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

    Beauty   Mother   Peace  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1887). “History of Woman Suffrage”
  • Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

    Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974
  • You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

    Soul   Growth   Mountain  
  • What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

    Nature   Travel   Home  
    Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.207, OUP Oxford
  • Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.

    Rain   Wind   Listening  
  • One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

    "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.
  • Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

  • Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.

  • And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

    Jewels   Greed   Soul  
    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin
  • No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.

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