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Quotes About Valleys

The physical beauty…also cleared her mind of worries. Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
~ William Faulkner
All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.
~ Anthony Doerr
There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.
~ Bryan White
as the sound of water in the valleys, the singing of the hill people, the smell of the pines, and the blue smoke rising from the villages, are always with you in the Himalayas.
~ Ruskin Bond
This darkness had a calming effect on me. The open country sank into a deep dark tinge of blue beneath the pearly heavens, and I could see the forests encroaching on the tilled land, creeping higher here and there, as the hills folded over one another or sank steeply into valleys of pure blackness.
~ Anne Rice
This pain It is a glacier moving through you And carving out deep valleys And creating spectacular landscapes
~ John Grant
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom.
~ Richard Preston
Vallées, jalouses vallées! Vous tirerez sur le fil ce soir, et il faudra bien obéir. Mais vous ne tiendrez que nos corps. Sachez-le: nous avons fait un pacte avec le Seigneur des dures cimes qu'il n'est plus en notre pouvoir de rompre, jusqu'au jour peut-être où une sagesse inconnue entrera dans nos cœurs... où les montagnes, où les scintillantes montagnes elles-mêmes deviendront inutiles.
~ Samivel
I came at last to the ocean And found it wild and black, And I cried to the windless valleys, "Be kind and take me back!
~ Sara Teasdale
The soaring mountains rose around her, and the poets' waters glittered beneath her in the valleys of memory—hosts of golden daffodils, Swallows and Amazons, Peter Rabbit. She
~ Elizabeth Wein
Out the plane's window, flatlands had given way to the rough and rumpled chaos of mountain peaks and alpine valleys.
~ Ellen Datlow
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.
~ Sharyn McCrumb
Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.
~ Mary Shelley
You will write toward truth but even then you will be lying. For writing freezes what was in time, and time cannot be frozen, and what is here on this page will be left on this page, and you will keep on moving. Over hills. And through cracked valleys.
~ Beth Kephart
If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.
~ Betty Dravis
The animal collapsed to her front knees, then to one side, the spear holding her half upright as - beautiful creature built from mountains and valleys and brooks and wildflower meadows and sky - she became wind.
~ Bill Roorbach
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
~ Alexander Cockburn
So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.
~ Dan Millman
Out of the hills of Habersham,Down the valleys of Hall.
~ Sidney Lanier
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
~ Maya Angelou
The Roman Englishman put his road from London to Bath, along valleys and around hills.
~ Susan Cooper
Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.
~ Billy Graham