Quotes About Mountains

That mighty Being, who heaped up these craggy rocks, and reared these stupendous mountains, and poured out these streams in all directions, and scattered immortal beings throughout these deserts - He is present, by the influence of his Holy Spirit, and accompanies the sound of the gospel with converting, sanctifying power.

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

It's a very bad idea to leave a woman alone with only 'er thoughts for company. Women stew and fret and make mountains out o' molehills until what we think was a little make turns into a killing offense.

CALL it loneliness, that deep, beautiful color no one can describe: over these dark mountains, the gathering autumn dusk.

The color blue fills the entire mirror and, watching it, I think that is how a small northern town in America works. It enlists one beautiful thing like the ocean or the mountains or the snow to keep people stuck and stagnant and staring out to sea forever.

Vallées, jalouses vallées! Vous tirerez sur le fil ce soir, et il faudra bien obéir. Mais vous ne tiendrez que nos corps. Sachez-le: nous avons fait un pacte avec le Seigneur des dures cimes qu'il n'est plus en notre pouvoir de rompre, jusqu'au jour peut-être où une sagesse inconnue entrera dans nos cœurs... où les montagnes, où les scintillantes montagnes elles-mêmes deviendront inutiles.

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

Like a sweet apple reddening on a high branch, on the tip of the topmost branch and forgotten by the apple pickers—no, beyond their reach. Like a hyacinth in the mountains that shepherd men trample down with their feet, and on the earth the purple flower

We are two eagles Flying together Under the heavens, Over the mountains, Stretched on the wind. Sunlight heartens us, Blind snow baffles us, Clouds wheel after us Ravelled and thinned. We are like eagles But when Death harries us, Human and humbled When one of us goes, Let the other follow, Let the flight be ended, Let the fire blacken, Let the book close.

It was just on a whole other level, getting to experience and ride that terrain. We spent a fair amount of time in the Hakuba Valley.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

The past is carried to us on simple things—a written page, a spoon, a glove, a bowl of water: carried by the souls who touched them, those plain relics emanate, a language, freed of time, language without cadence—mute and eerie as the sound a granite planet makes giving birth to mountains, coursing its way through space.

We walked north, with the lake on our right hand. If we looked at it, the water seemed spread over half the world. The mountains, grayed and flattened by distance, looked like remnants of a broken dam, or like the broken lip of an iron pot, just at a simmer, endlessly distilling water into light.

people who lived in the mountains knew that all the truly great things had already been accomplished. They did not need to imagine ladders that would lead to heaven, or things of massive size that would astound the heart, because they had them in such profusion that it was difficult to get from town to town, and because of them the sun itself often was denied a chance to shine, or forced to break in gold through opaque ridges of ice and snow whiter than physics would allow.

Zrobimy to, co zawsze robiÄ™ w takich sytuacjach, co robiÅ'em ju? sto razy, co automatycznie robi ka?dy, kto naprawdÄ™ zna góry. – To znaczy? – KatapultÄ™.

The mountains—Tinker and Brushy, McAfee's Knob and Dead Man—are a passive mystery, the oldest of all. Theirs is the one simple mystery of creation from nothing, of matter itself, anything at all, the given. 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.

Mientras que las iglesias siempre están vacías, a muchas personas no les importa desplazarse para celebrar la eucaristía en un bello paisaje montañoso, en medio de la naturaleza. Allí experimentan la proximidad de Dios. Y una calma que les fascina.

Lady Glendora herself had a love for the mountains and lakes, but it was a love of that kind which requires to be stimulated by society, and which is keenest among cold chickens, picnic-pies, and the flying of champagne corks.

a parish without a village, lying among the mountains of Cumberland

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the tops of mountains, but to improve the man. —WALTER BONATTI, Italian climber

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Allá lejos estaban las montañas, donde moraban el poder y la belleza, donde el trueno sonaba alegremente por encima de los hielos y el aire era claro y penetrante. Allá, cuando la Tierra ya estaba envuelta en sombras, brillaba todavía el sol, transfigurando las cimas. Y ellos sólo podían observar y maravillarse. Nunca escalarían esas alturas.

Those silent times, those times when I was one with the mountains, earth and the black stones that held fire - those times were the strength and joy of my life.