Quotes About Himalayas

#1. When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#2. Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it.

Sumit Singh

#3. There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

Frederick Lenz

#4. If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again ...
without ever having been to the Himalayas.

Jose N. Harris

#5. In just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

Gordon Brown

#6. I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

Natalie Dormer

#7. The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.

Gautama Buddha

#8. It's an adventure. I mean I spent a lot of time in the Himalayas and over the years have come to know them very well. I would say most important is the first sense you have in a place like that, and that is the sense of being on an adventure.

Joe Rohde

#9. I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.

M. John Harrison

#10. The Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out.

Kiran Desai

#11. I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.

Hamish Bowles

#12. The rare derpicus man is know to live near the himalayas, in a cave made purely of dead weevils. His native tounge is unknown, but what I've translated contains a grat amount of the words, "pootis, derp, poop, and nnnnyyyyaaaaannnn!

John Nichol

#13. I'd say I needed to find myself, if that didn't sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.

Kelley Armstrong

#14. Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

Frederick Lenz

#15. If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

Marianne Williamson

#16. One who is seeking a live balance, a live silence, would like to move to both the market and the Himalayas. He would like to go to the market to enjoy noise, and he would also like to go to the Himalayas to enjoy silence. And

Osho

#17. I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

Tika Sumpter

#18. I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Steve Fossett

#19. Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

G. N. Devy

#20. Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Where there is kashay, they are all considered heaps of parigraha (worldly possessiveness); whether one is living in the Himalayas or in a cave. Where there is absence of kashays, there is absence of possessiveness; even if one is then living in a palace!

Dada Bhagwan

#22. We had this incredible pass over the Himalayas, and to just see all of that pollution that's riding up against those mountains from the south is just really heartbreaking.

Scott Kelly

#23. Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

Carlos Santana

#24. I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

Scilla Elworthy

#25. People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

Barbara Demick

#26. Baby, for you, I'd go to the ends of the world--slay a dragon, climb the Himalayas, and even dance. I'd do anything for you."
~Zane

M.L. Rodriguez

#27. Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.

Poonam Parihar

#28. I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

Yuichiro Miura

#29. Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.

Kailash Kher

#30. There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his journey where he has experienced everything in the world and does not have an attraction to it anymore.

Karan Bajaj

#31. Allan had never imagined it would be easy to cross the Himalayas. But later he had realised just how lucky he had been to bump into those kind Iranian communists. It

Jonas Jonasson

#32. I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.

James Balog

#33. He lost a finger. A finger! Why, I once had a Sherpa who guided me across the Himalayas with his small intestines hanging out of his gut
in winter!

Rick Yancey

#34. I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

Pankaj Mishra

#35. For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature ... whence we formerly took our flight.

Romain Rolland

#37. I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

Fidel Castro

#38. In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

Frederick Lenz

#39. I cannot see you anymore. Your ego spans higher than the Himalayas. Sutara

Eleni Papanou

#40. In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable
intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation, a mixed ecstasy of deadly fright and unimaginable joy. I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight.

Mark Twain

#41. I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

Judah Friedlander

#42. Great material progress has not been matched by great spiritual progress. Quite the opposite. Indeed, from this point of view perhaps man has never been so poor as since he became so rich.
Letters against the war: Letter from the Himalayas, 2008.

Tiziano Terzani

#43. There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there are some.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Imagine Himalayas without glaciers. Imagine 3 nuclear powers without water.

Vinita Kinra

#45. There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

Rebecca Solnit

#46. If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#47. ... where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.

Bernadette McDonald

#48. There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditate in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed.

Frederick Lenz

#49. Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

#50. In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#51. There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

Heinrich Harrer

#52. Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Jeffrey Rasley

#53. Morning mists skulked over the river.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#54. He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Jeffrey Rasley

#55. The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#56. Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

Mahatma Gandhi