Mountain Quotes - Page 24

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

If you are under control you're going too slow.

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.

The hills of one’s youth are all mountains

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.