Top 100 Quotes About Mountains
#1. Find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest
Bram Stoker
#2. No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!
John Muir
#3. The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.
Gautama Buddha
#4. Further north, I met a Siberian hermit who lived in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. His life's passion was wrestling black bears ... in the nude (him not the bears). He did not know why he did it. All the hermit knew was that if he stopped wrestling bears, he would die.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#5. You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.
Mark Udall
#6. Kohler shrugged. Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.
Dan Brown
#7. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.
John Milton
#8. When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.
Galen Rowell
#9. Night is falling. The gods have left us for those who please them better. Our time in the world is passed, and we are as wasted as the wind against the mountains. Shadows are falling, the gods have left us.
Jim Grimsley
#10. Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
Warren G. Bennis
#11. I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
Katarina Witt
#12. An ancient buddha said, "Mountains are mountains; waters are waters." These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
Dogen
#13. The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.
Greg Child
#14. Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.
Mikhail Lermontov
#15. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba
#16. Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.
Terry Pratchett
#17. Just as it had done with the hills, the mountains, and the swamps, Ravnica had annexed and absorbed the world's lakes without so much as a hiccup.
Ari Marmell
#18. Beyond us I could see the mountains rising blue and hazy, and I knew I had only to cross them and keep on walking to catch up with all my dreams.
Jean Hegland
#19. If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.
Elizabeth Sims
#20. The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them.
Mandy Hale
#21. In my life, I have come to realize that people are afraid of a revolution. A true revolution doesn't have to be fought with an AK47, because our words and practice of non-violent can move mountains.
Henry Johnson Jr
#22. That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature
that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.
Yann Martel
#23. You can never feel the real power of the mountains until you start climbing their summits!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. The water was still. The mountains moved.
Avijeet Das
#26. This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong
#27. Humanity is a brilliant river
Singing its way and carrying with
It the mountains' secrets into
The heart of the sea; but you,
My Countrymen, are stagnant
Marshes invested with insects
And vipers.
Kahlil Gibran
#28. The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
Ben Aaronovitch
#29. Human tendency is to make mountains out of molehills. Yet when we examine our problems ... we realize it's how we look at them ... that really makes the difference.
Timothy Pina
#30. I see the faces that stop by my cart here. Their smiles are hollow, their eyes are hungry. The yogi's faces are different. Silent, complete. Like the mountains around them. Asking no questions, seeking no answers, just certain, as though they knew exactly who they were.
Karan Bajaj
#31. Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#32. The mountains form a natural barrier between the Capitol and the eastern districts. It is almost impossible to enter from the east except through the tunnels. This geographical advantage was a major factor in the districts losing the war that led to my being a tribute today.
Anonymous
#33. Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky
Elyne Mitchell
#34. One who can move mountains start with the little stones.
Confucius
#35. What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
Horace
#36. He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. Courageous,
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. What do you want to sing?" "My favorite song." "I don't know if she'll like that one." "She will." Marcus had the certainty of walls, of mountains.
Neil Gaiman
#38. 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.
Leslie Stephen
#39. Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet ... I am in love with the mountains.
Wilfrid Noyce
#40. China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
Li Peng
#41. But the gray ridge of the mountains that sliced through the map was a weight on her heart, an obstacle to be met.
Mindy McGinnis
#42. 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
#43. making mountains out of molehills, thereby
Linda Hatch
#44. I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.
Shawna Yang Ryan
#45. A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain doesn't mean a big jet of water. It means humidity, the origin of life.
Jaume Plensa
#46. The snowfall totals so far have been stunning, with 22 inches of snow on Mount Leconte, Tennessee, which is in the Great Smoky Mountains, and widespread amounts of half-a-foot or more in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains.
Anonymous
#47. The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#48. Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.
Will Hobbs
#49. Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.
Spike Jonze
#51. Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
Anatoli Boukreev
#52. Learn well how to climb because you will come across with many hills and mountains in your short life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. Our hearts may have broken in Nebraska but in Colorado they split open along the fractures, crumble to pieces, blow away. The peaks and green valleys, the lakes set at the foot of mountains like offerings. Beautiful and doomed and thus terrible.
Ron Currie Jr.
#54. Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
John Steinbeck
#55. The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins.
Jim Corbett
#56. Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.
A J Betts
#57. The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.
Eric Rucker Eddison
#58. We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
Tamae Watanabe
#59. In the mountains the cherry trees were in full bloom, and the farther he went, the lovelier the veils of mist became, until for him, whose rank so restricted travel that all this was new, the landscape became a source of wonder.
Murasaki Shikibu
#60. -just on the verge of
becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd
reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom
of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.
V.C. Andrews
#61. He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. Just because the yogis went into the mountains to meditate does not mean you have to, too. One can meditate anywhere and at any time. You only require one thing, the desire.
Poonam Dhandhania
#63. Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Sam Walter Foss
#64. It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land
Martin Delany
#65. The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.
Anne Perry
#66. God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
Swami Vivekananda
#67. The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned
Kathleen Raine
#68. To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.
Robert M. Pirsig
#69. I don't know what's waiting for me around the corner and I don't know what else I'm going to be doing in the future - but you've got to enjoy things while you're doing them. There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.
Miley Cyrus
#70. There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
Alex Lowe
#71. Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
Czeslaw Milosz
#72. Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live in the mountains," the Abbot chuckled, "and nothing is ever to one's liking ...
Eiji Yoshikawa
#73. Likewise, I know that if you continue to move forward - however slow your pace might seem - you will conquer your darkest canyons and your tallest mountains.
Seth Adam Smith
#74. People tend to be like flowing water; taking the path of least resistance, what they often forget is that water can cut through mountains.
E.S. Quinton
#75. Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.
Thomas Berry
#76. I was sitting by myself the other night doing the usual things one does when spending time alone with yourselves. You know, making mountains out of molehills, hiking up to the top of the mountains, having a Hostess Twinkie and then throwing myself off the mountain. Stuff like that.
Carrie Fisher
#77. Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Thomas Carlyle
#78. For a moment everything is as quiet as it can be in a ship in the mountains. The wind moves in the trees outside, and under that is the breathing of those of us who are not still, not yet. "We're
Ally Condie
#79. This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood ...
Vladimir Bukovsky
#80. I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.
Deny King
#81. Behind them, the white caps of the mountains gleamed like wicked teeth.
Tam Linsey
#82. O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#83. When life brings you mountains, you don't waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.
A.J. Darkholme
#84. Far away, through the gash that led the way into the mountains, he heard the thick mouth of the perpetual thunder.
Stephen King
#85. this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and hold on to it for as long as it lasts. I want you to seize." "You
Penny Reid
#86. I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
Inara George
#87. Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!
Anonymous
#89. Nothing like the pure, unpolluted air we get to breathe in these mountains, and nothing like being away from cities.
Preeti Shenoy
#90. Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
Laini Taylor
#91. My native land is all lands,
In no particular direction.
My monastery is the solitary mountains,
In no particular place.
My family is all the beings of the six realms.
SHABKAR
#92. Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?
James Clavell
#93. I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.
Oliver Neubert
#94. Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?
Jimi Hendrix
#95. Narnia. The happy land of Narnia
Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs, Narnia of the many rivers, the plashing glens, the mossy caverns and the deep forests ringing with the hammers of the Dwarfs ...
C.S. Lewis
#96. Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.
Zhang Xianliang
#97. The Buddha said, 'Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.' I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.
Conn Iggulden
#98. Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
May Sarton
#99. You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.
Link Wray
#100. So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'
Rajneesh
