Mountain Quotes - Page 39

Mountain Pine bark beetles need -37°C (-35°F) for three days to freeze to death. Unfortunately, with global warming, that no longer happens in British Columbia [Canada]. This means the population of the beetles have exploded. They have destroyed more forests than all the environmentalists put together have saved.

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians of your life. If you cannot dwell on their lofty heights all your life, if you are in trouble, you want at least to look at them.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

If my friends are going to the mountains with guns to fight, I will continue that fight, not with guns but with a camera.

Someday we'll know if love can move a mountain.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain.

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder