Mountain Quotes - Page 38

Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake!

If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!

If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!

Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!

You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!

However small you might be, if necessary, struggle against the mountain of evils however big it may be!

Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains!

Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!

Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.

She was a girl with a mountain to climb.

Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clucthing at a book.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.