Lowlands Quotes

#1. Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. 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 ...

John Muir

#3. The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.

David Roberts

#4. Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Alexander Smith

#5. The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#6. He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,
Who among them would try to impress you?
-Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (1966)

Bob Dylan

#8. Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few

Chris Highland

#9. Newaygo County, Michigan, is a strangely beautiful, yet almost fearful land. Its muscular forests flex around sodden lowlands.

John H. Timmerman

#10. If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

J. Oswald Sanders

#11. An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

Sun Tzu

#12. Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Phillips Brooks

#13. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Robert M. Pirsig

#14. [ ... ] little Belgium once again busy at what she does best, tamely offering her battlefield-ready lowlands to boots, hooves, iron wheels, waiting to be first to go under before a future no one in Europe has the clairvoyance to imagine as anything more than an exercise for clerks.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and ... " "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's

Shannon Hale

#16. Republicans are all about Old Glory and school prayer and the sanctity of marriage and the Fatherhood of God but when it comes to actually needing help from them, you shouldn't get your hopes up. They might send an ambulance or they might just send a Get Well card.

Garrison Keillor

#17. When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no relationship or amount of money will ever give you.

Cheryl Richardson

#18. You know I've smoked a lot of grassO' Lord, I've popped a lot of pillsBut I never touched nothin'That my spirit could kill.

Hoyt Axton

#19. OK cosmos, I could use some good news. Go on, surprise me.

William Meikle

#20. I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Mark Leyner

#21. I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

Brie Larson

#22. The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

Michael Pollan