Quotes About Mountain

Whan he hed come doun aff the braeside, an unco thrang o fowk fallowt him' (Matt. 8:1)

They sit for a long time, hidden away in the small crater. Holding each other like refugees from a storm… Beneath Ora's body are the cool stone and the whole mountain, enormous and solid and infinite. She thinks: How thin is the crust of the earth

Gazing at the Sacred Peak What is this ancestor Exalt Mountain like? Endless greens of north and south meeting Where Changemaker distills divine beauty, Where yin and yang cleave dusk and dawn. Chest heaving breathes out cloud, and eyes Open dusk bird-flight home. One day soon, On the summit, peaks ranging away will be small enough to hold, all in a single glance. Tu Fu

Dawn Landscape The last watch has sounded in the Amble-Awe. Radiant color spreads above Solar-Terrace Mountain, then cold sun clears high peaks. Mist and cloud linger across layered ridges, And earth split-open hides river sails deep. Leaves clatter at heaven's clarity. I listen, And face deer at my bramble gate-so close Here, we touch our own kind in each other. Tu Fu

Be swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, steady as a mountain.

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Happiness can be as elusive as a small fish darting away in a mountain stream.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

The Mountain One moment, the mountain is clear in strong morning sunlight. The next, vanished in fog. I returned to Tu Fu, afraid to look up again from my reading and find in the window moonlight - but when I do, the fog is still there, and only the ancient poet's hair has turned gray while a single wild goose passed him, silently climbing.

Technology hasn't got all the answers, and sometimes - just sometimes - what is needed is spirituality, time and some good mountain air.

Sunlight streamed through grumbling storm clouds that played like tiger kittens around the mountain ridges.

any mountain climber will tell you it's not about reaching the top: It's about the journey, overcoming doubts, bravely going into the unknown. It's about accepting your constraints without letting them overcome your goals.