Quotes About Mountains

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Again, it was proposed that we should go up the mountains and make our camps there.

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

[W]hat mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

68. ?And your Lord inspired the bee, "Make your houses in the mountains, in the trees, and in the buildings they construct: 69. ?"then eat from all the fruits, gently walking the pathways of your Lord." From within them exudes a drink of various colors, in it healing for humankind. Surely in that is a sign for people who reflect.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.

We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.

In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak; but for that one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks – and those who are addressed, tall and lofty.

La fe no transporta las montañas, sino que coloca montañas donde no las hay.

I think you always write what you love. Whether it's your grandmother or gourmet cooking or mountains and rivers. Sunsets kissing the tallest building or chipmunks scattering off to bed. I like the quiet. And I like the sound of the quiet. I'm a mountain girl. I listen and make lists of what I hear.

I am from Appalachia. The Tennessee mountains with the early evenings and that great morning light made storytellers out of all of us.

Gehurkt aan de waterrand volgde ik het wonder. De sterren verbleekten, de hemel werd lichter, en tegen het licht tekenden met fijne pen de bergen, de bomen, de meeuwen zich af. De dag brak aan.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

Durante un instante la mamaíta había visto la montaña sin pensar en explotaciones madederas, pistas de esquí ni avalanchas, vida natural controlada, geología de placas tectónicas, microclimas, efecto sombra de lluvia ni lugares yin-yang. Había visto la montaña sin el marco del lenguaje. Sin la cárcel de las asociaciones. La había visto sin mirar a través de la lente de todo lo que sabía acerca de las montañas.

One time, a roadrunner watched her take a shit, her squatting form framed by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Through the white snow-gate of our ampitheatre, as through a frame we looked eastward upon the summit group; not a tree, not a vestige of vegetation in sight,-sky, snow and granite the only elements in this wild picture.

The sand of the desert of Yondo is not as the sand of other deserts; for Yondo lies nearest of all to the world's rim; and strange winds, blowing from a gulf no astronomer may hope to fathom, have sown its ruinous fields with the grey dust of corroding planets, the black ashes of extinguished suns. The dark orb-like mountains which rise from its wrinkled and pitted plain are not all its own, for some are fallen asteroids. - The Abominations of Yondo