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Quotes About Mountains

Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man
~ Hanshan
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.
~ Reiko Chiba
Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man
~ Hanshan
In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
~ John Muir
No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
~ Walton Goggins
Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.
~ Johanna Spyri
Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.
~ Sherman Alexie
The mountains are calling and I must go.
~ John Muir
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...
~ Diane Ackerman
I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.
~ John Muir
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
~ William Wordsworth
Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.
~ Zhang Xianliang
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
~ John Muir
Come to the woods, for here is rest, ...climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
~ John Muir
He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.
~ Michael Koryta, Rise the Dark
Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks
~ Munia Khan
It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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.
~ George William Curtis
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
~ Jonathan Swift
Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff.
~ Hamdi Ulukaya
Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.
~ Don McLean