Highest Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words highest and/or mountain:

“Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Fogs and clouds which conceal the overshadowing mountains lend the breadth of the plains to mountain vales. Even the small-featured country acquires some grandeur in stormy weather when clouds are seen drifting between the beholder and the neighboring hills.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)