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Mountain

(noun) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. Example: "We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains."

24 QUOTES
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
— John Muir
"The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there."
— Vince Lombardi
"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain."
— Sun Tzu
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
— Confucius
"It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset."
— John Muir
"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen."
— John Muir
"Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer."
— John Muir
"A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice."
— Rumi
"Nothing truly wild is unclean."
— John Muir
"In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars."
— John Muir
"Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing."
— John Muir
"Going to the mountains is going home."
— John Muir
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