Mountain Quotes - Page 14

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!

India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hmdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

What wonders lie in every mountain day!

Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand

So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man." "Yep" "What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.