Famous Quotes - Tags - Ktaadn, Mount
- At length I entered within the skirts of the cloud which seemed forever drifting over the summit,... More
- I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of... More
- I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins... More
- I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear... More
- It was, perhaps, even a more grand and desolate place for a night’s lodging than the summit... More
- Ktaadn ... is an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and... More
- Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much... More
- On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of... More
- Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable, Nature....... More
- Seen from this point, a bare ridge at the extremity of the open land, Ktaadn presented a... More
- The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult... More
- The tracks of moose, more or less recent, to speak literally, covered every square rod on the... More
- We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and... More
- We had the fairest view of Ktaadn.... The summit ... had a singularly flat, table-land... More
- We were soon in the smooth water of the Quakish Lake,... and we had our first, but a partial view... More
- While my companions were seeking a suitable spot ... I improved the little daylight that was left... More
- You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is... More
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