“I owned the world that hour as I rode over it… free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.”
On flying over the Rocky Mountains, as quoted in Lindbergh (1978) by Leonard Mosley
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“Behold, how free
The mountains stand, and eternally.”
Epigraph, Ch. 3 : Man-Hunters.
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Context: These stony altars they have hurled
Oppression back, have kept the boon
Of liberty. Behold, how free
The mountains stand, and eternally.
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, in The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
“For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
"The Peace of Wild Things" in Green River Review, No. 1 (1968).
Context: I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 108
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)