Hudson Stuck quotes

“We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.”
-- Hudson Stuck

Source : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

#Snow Quotes

“There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.”
-- Hudson Stuck

Source : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

#Air Quotes #Feet Quotes #Nineteen Quotes

“Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.”
-- Hudson Stuck

Source : Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”

#Alaska Quotes #Feet Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.”
-- Hudson Stuck

Source : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

#Fashion Quotes #Names Quotes #Glaciers Quotes

“A pupil is a great resource.”
-- Hudson Stuck

Source : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

#Pupils Quotes #Resources Quotes

“Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.”
-- Hudson Stuck

#Thinking Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Picnics Quotes

“One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.”
-- Hudson Stuck

#Mountain Quotes #Cracks Quotes #Burial Quotes

“On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.”

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”

Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)

“Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu”

“So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”

Source : Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”

“The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.”

Source : Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser

“Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

“Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.”

“Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.”

“Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.”