Quotes About Mountains
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
~ Ruskin Bond
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THE TALKING FISH My love's eyes are red as the sargasso With lights behind the iris like a cephalopod's. The weeds move slowly, November's diatoms Stain the soft stagnant belly of the sea. Mountains, atolls, coral reefs, Do you desire me? Am I among the jellyfish of your griefs? I comb my sorrows singing; any doomed sailor can hear The rising and falling bell and begin to wish For home. There is no choice among the voices Of love. Even a carp sings.
~ Ruth Stone
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How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.
~ Ryokan
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Ey da?lar?n dertlerini dinleyen rüzgar! Benim art?k yaln?z sana itimad?m var.
~ Sabahattin Ali
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Arapahos had followed the buffalo, pitched villages in the lee of the mountains, ridden out like itinerant shop-keepers to trade buffalo robes and blankets with other Indian tribes. Intelligent, logical, peaceful, that was the Arapahos. "The businessmen of the plains," the first white traders had called them.
~ Margaret Coel
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Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?
~ Karl Jakob Weber
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Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
~ David
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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
~ William Blake
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It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.
~ Ruskin Bond
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And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.
~ Anne Rice
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The silence of the golden room answered. It was as cold as the shrine in the mountains. I
~ Anne Rice
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Seperti jiwaku yang sederhana,' bisik Khayman. 'Kau tersesat dalam semua ini karena kau terlalu mengenal medan. Dan seberapa pun jauhnya kau berjalan, kau akan kembali lagi ke pegunungan yang sama, ke bukit yang sama.
~ Anne Rice
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The original Shiro-sama failed, of course, and was ordered by the emperor to commit ritual suicide in his temple in the mountains. He did, and his followers cremated his body and put his bones in a sacred urn to be guarded until the time he was reborn. And that's the Hayashi Urn? she said. A funeral jar? And I kept my cookies in it?
~ Anne Stuart
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It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
~ Annie Dillard
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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
~ Annie Dillard
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
~ Annie Dillard
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That's what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.
~ Shannon M Mullen
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Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.
~ Nhat Hanh
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I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.
~ Wayne Allard
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The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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prison, he could still remember the pleasant green glades and thickly forested hills of his former fief. The streams filled with fish and the fields rich with crops and game. Gorlan had been a beautiful, living place. The Mountains of Rain and Night were dead and
~ John Flanagan
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Despite the recurrence of events in which the debris-basin system fails in its struggle to contain the falling mountains, people who live on the front line are for the most part calm and complacent. It appears that no amount of front-page or prime-time attention will ever prevent such people from masking out the problem.
~ John McPhee
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And all the while, hanging over them was the shadow of the Scottish Highlands. For the purple-gray mountains that rose up to the north of Edinburgh were inhabited by fearsome men in kilts: beings who seemed more like beasts than men.
~ Arthur Herman
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