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“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
Kenneth Grahame“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.”
Clarice Lispector“My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.”
Greg Mortenson“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”
Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot“Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.”
Victoria Kahler, Capturing the Sunset“Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.”
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion“In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Road“It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.”
H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia“The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow