Burnt Peak is a peak in the Angeles National Forest of Southern California. Burnt Peak is the highest peak in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of the Transverse Ranges. The peak is located in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County several miles north of Santa Clarita.
Famous quotes containing the words burnt and/or peak:
“One year
They sent a million here:
Here men were drunk like water, burnt like wood.
The fat of good
And evil, the breast’s star of hope
Were rendered into soap.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
“In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)