Quotes About Mountains

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Taos is] a high, wise, sage-covered plain. In the evening, with the sun at your back, it looks like an ocean, like water. The color up there is different . . . the blue-green of the sage and mountains, the wildflowers in bloom. It's a different kind of color from any I'd ever seen---there's nothing like that in north Texas or even in Colorado. And it's not just the color that attracted me either The world is so wide up there, so big.

These summer storms would be hatched in a nest of cumulus clouds in the Albanian mountains and ferried rapidly across to Corfu by a warm, scouring wind

The snow light flared on brightness. Blue: intense as a midsummer sky, obtained from grinding precious lapis lazuli carried by camel caravan all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers, the winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.

Así en la kapija, entre el cielo, el río y las montañas, generación tras otra aprendió a no lamentar sobremanera lo que el agua turbia se llevaba. Ahí les penetró la filosofía inconsciente de la kasaba: que la vida es un prodigio incomprensible porque se gasta y derrocha sin cesar y, sin embargo, dura y perdura firmemente como <>

we also first beheld Unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc, and grieved To have a soulless image on the eye That had usurped upon a living thought That never more could be.

MOUNTAINS OF CALDWELL, NEW YORK, PRESENT DAY T

She could tell him how he smelled. So good. Like the crisp, clear mountains.Tu sens bon. Comme les montanges. He arched a brow, his lids dropping partway closed. Tu es sexy. Je tiens à vous lécher partout. Oh, God. He understood.

dropped into France to organize the Maquis in the Vosges Mountains. He did damned well

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind.

So easy in the woods to daydream and pray to the local spirits and say "Allow me to stay here, I only want peace" and those foggy peaks answer back mutely Yes

It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.

But the mountains were mighty solemn, and so was Japhy, and for that matter so was I, and in fact laugher is solemn.

They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they though civilisation could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. They didn't know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday and stretching out our hands in the same, same way.

I felt like laughing, he loomed so funny. But the moutains were mighty solemn, and so was Japhy, and for that matter so was I, and in fact, laughter is solemn