Quotes About Mountains

I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.

The Alps had taught him not to fret and whine at difficult circumstances. It was a waste of energy.

It came in rose fingers that fanned across a blue sky framed by snowcapped mountains

It became a pattern over the course of the following weeks. Every few days, two, three, or sometimes four travelers would ring the bell at Casa Alpina. Pino would lead them out in the wee hours of the morning, climbing by what light the moon offered, and using the carbide miner's lamp only during cloud cover and the dark of the moon. On these trips, after handing over his charges to Bergstrom, he went to the shepherd's hut

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts.

Many of the town's residents summered up North, along with their horses. Others took long, slow weekends at the beach or on the lake or in the mountains, in family homes built by their great grandparents and passed through the generations like prized silver. The rest of us simply tempered our pace and entered into the peace that floated around us on the breeze of a slow-moving fan.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. (Psalm 46:1-3)

Tânjeam dup? o dragoste mai mare ca dealul Arthur's Seat ?i acum m-am pomenit cu un lan? de mun?i care îmi cre?te direct sub oase.

The mountains had bestowed on us their beauties, and we adored them with a child's simplicity and revered them with a monk's veneration of the divine. Annapurna

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!

Invariably pure and austere, poets mostly starve to death embracing empty mountains, and when white clouds have no master, they just drift off, idle thoughts carefree.

It was raining outside. The little drops fell on the rooftops, on the streets … maybe also on the mountains….drops of water hung from clotheslines and played tag and sometimes one of them would fall and before it fell it would S T R E T C H and S T R E T C H because you could see it was hard for it to let go. It had been raining for a week…and the clouds were so swollen they were right on the roof tops.

It was late January in Draper, Utah, and as picturesque as the snow on the mountains was, it did not mix well with our modern lifestyle.

the Sinai Peninsula

The mountains are intimations of transcendence, which he is now free to pursue, and the walking writes messages in every cell of his body, telling him that he is not locked inside a cement box, nor in a water drum, but is moving forward.