- Cinematography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mountains Quotes
On the pull of high places.
These lines treat mountains as both literal terrain and metaphor—patience compared to something that can move mountains, an adventurer's need for high, remote places, and even the specific thrill of soaring off a summit. It connects to our Nature theme.
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- Thrive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.
- Pakistan
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 9/11, Hekmatyar helped Osama bin Laden escape from the mountains of Tora Bora into Pakistan, and then decamped to Iran, until his presence there became a bit too inconvenient.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments.
- Fanatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife Santa is a fanatical skier, going to Klosters many times a year. To please her, I have for 12 years tried to ski, abseil, mountain-climb, para-scend, heli-ski, land-lauf, ice-skate, toboggan, luge, bobsleigh, yodel, gulp gluhwein, dunk bread in cheese fondue, or even walk in the mountains. I have failed at every one of these pursuits.
- Hermits
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020