Mount Read

Mount Read is the name of several places:

  • Australia:
    • Mount Read (Tasmania), a mountain on the West-Coast of Tasmania
    • Mount Read (Northern Territory), a hill in the Northern Territory
  • Canada:
    • Mount Read (British Columbia), a mountain on Gilford Island

Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or read:

    “On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)