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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park. -- Donella Meadows
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer. -- Bill Kurtis
I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts. -- Martha Stewart
Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park -- Donella Meadows
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. -- Louis Agassiz
I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold. -- Matthew Fox
To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow. -- Michelle Paver
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
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way. -- Frances Perkins
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying. -- James Balog
I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear. -- James Balog
One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it. -- Jonathan Nolan
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. -- John Muir
Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Everyone looks at me like I'm stark naked standing on a glacier petting a penguin. -- Brandy Nacole
He just wanted to stand close to her, touch her hair that was white as glacier milk... -- Janet Fitch
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. -- John Muir
A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself! -- Charles M. Schulz
Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain. -- Haruki Murakami
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. -- John Clellon Holmes
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free." -- John Clellon Holmes
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing. -- John D. MacDonald
It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is. -- Stephen Colbert
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. -- T. S. Eliot
The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? -- Louis Agassiz
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead. -- W. H. Auden
If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER. -- Dave Barry
Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles. -- Julia Glass
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier. -- Chris Bonington
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I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof. -- David Nicholls
His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted. -- George R. R. Martin

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