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Atalanta in Calydon
Fox Creek Road. Such a simple, unassuming name for this place where destiny's going to go down. Now I know the where. And the who, and the what. All I have to figure out is the when. And the why.
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.
I work out at Runyon Canyon almost every morning.
Clay Blaisdell Western
car. I headed down CA-116 - the winding road
What river can flood over the mountains of your love?
Wow Even the rocks in Sedona meditate!
Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
There's a Hidden Valley ranch party in my mouth.
mountain range in northwestern
All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
[New Mexico is] the only landscape . . . where Nature is as aesthetic as Art; the only landscape that can compete with the great painters.
This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with your sweat. It is the core of everything living, wilderness like molten iron.
Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
The truth is the river flows into the canyon
Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and ride and ride, and then, for the next two hours, you look for a place to kick out, in this amazing canyon with so much heritage and so much history.
You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.
I love the Valley. There's no attitude.
He has traveled through canyons of his own and come through changed. And
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.
I don't know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, coloring the rock layers until it's gone and the canyon is covered in shadow.
Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life ... as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures ...
When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!
Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep
Bagby Hot Springs.
Free shackled rivers! ... The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].
Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
From the green belt balcony, the wildfires look so pretty
Ponderosa canopy, I'd never leave if it were up to me
To the ruby redwood tree, and to the velvet climbing ivy painted all mahogany
I'd never leave if it were up to me
I peered into the deep-sae canyon, hoping to spot a toppled skyscraper. Maybe even the Statue of Liberty.
Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning
The feeling of standing on the edge of a canyon and screaming, waiting for an echo that refused to come.
I ain't movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.
The hills roll for miles; green, flourishing, dotted with trees and hikers. The blue sky is endless and the sun illuminates through the thin white clouds. There's a breeze coming upward and also across and as they collide it makes me feel as if I'm flying.
somewhere in the mountains with two
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.
I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here.
The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
Mountain with a sweeping view of the mountain range. Under starlight,
It is through the valley that one reaches the mountain top. I need but take one step at a time until I reach the pinnacle.
He took the 101 out to the Valley and then the 405 north to the 118 and west. He got off in Chatsworth and drove into the rocky bluffs at the top corner of the Valley.
WindClan territory
suburban-cocooned ass
With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether.
A crystal clear Colorado sky opens above us, a blue so deep it makes you dizzy. The occasional bright white wispy cloud dances across the firmament, punctuating the deep blue vault of heaven stretching over this paradise.
The countryside they
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it ...
...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Gazing out from the mountains, the clouds are whiter, the sky is bluer, the air seeping into your lungs is as clear as the water roaring down from the snow, melting on the high peaks. A place where heaven is a little closer.
I've been to the Mountaintop
For the mountains shall depart
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.
Through the mountains you go as a breeze comes
Xochimilco in Mexico, where skies, mountains, and poplars are reflected,
I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it
was upon a hill.
...the Sierra Nevada claimed me, aching knees and pumping heart, as one of it's own. Here, like nowhere else, I'm home.
What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.
See perhaps four and a half miles, and the lookout
Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.
the Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp;
The Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp;
Ahead of me is the open desert, hot and merciless. Behind me is Sand. I don't turn back; I don't say goodbye. The Bullet Catcher carves a straight line through the desert, walking towards the distant mountains.
And I follow.
Pueblo, Colorado, a corrupt and decaying mining town high in the Rockies, is the setting for Heidi Julavits's The Mineral Palace, a story of motherhood, a troubled marriage, and the unveiling of long-held secrets.
Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We'd parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to it splashing across rocks and stones; a lovely sound.
The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.)
valley. After a half mile the road deteriorated into a
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
Wilderness areas worth everyone's footsteps
Welcome to Thistle Bend
Wildflower Capital of Colorado
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.
Perhaps this is what I learned in the canyons: What I am, what I'm not, what I'll give, and what I won't.
We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.
the coast, irregular
This valley was more than my home. It beat in me like the drum of my own heart. Only
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society ...
Sedona is beautiful. Your soul is more beautiful than Sedona.
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.
Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.
Wilderness begins in the human mind.
with thick stone walls and high, slitted
when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists
Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.
What can be handsomer for a picture than our river scenery now? Take this view from the first Conantum Cliff.
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.
The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.
Don't go chasin'waterfalls,stIck to the rivers and lakes that you're used to
I'm from Chicago. I think can handle the Valley.
Sedona is beautiful, but your soul is even more beautiful.
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.