Georges Cuvier Quotes
Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.
Quotes to Explore
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Expanding traditional energy sources like large-scale hydropower does not mean just accepting what Northern Pass has put on the table, and no one should accept Northern Pass's assertion that the only way for New England to access Canadian hydropower is to trade away the majestic beauty of the White Mountains.
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I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
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Now I may have faith, to make mountains fall. But if I lack love, then I am nothin' at all.
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I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.
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Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?
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As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
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I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
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I am a lawyer by profession.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
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Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.
