Quotes About Walking In The Mountains

#1. When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Jack Gilbert

#2. Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

Tahar Rahim

#3. Do you know how fast you are walking? ... To get a close estimate, count the number of steps you take in a minute and divide by 30 ...

Albina Fabiani

#4. We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

E.P. Thompson

#5. 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

#6. [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

Rebecca Solnit

#7. We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Mountains are the only stars we can reach by walking!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

Michael Jordan

#10. 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.

Michael D. O'Brien

#11. Ahead of me is the open desert, hot and merciless. Behind me is Sand. I don't turn back; I don't say goodbye. The Bullet Catcher carves a straight line through the desert, walking towards the distant mountains.
And I follow.

Joaquin Lowe

#12. You cannot walk on water or move mountains without faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

Jamais Cascio

#14. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. I like winter and I like the dark and I like cats and I like the rain and I like walking up mountains and sitting at the top in the fog . That's all I need to know about my life right now. It's pretty simple

Annabel Pitcher

#16. You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

John Ruskin

#17. A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity
culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

Rebecca Solnit

#18. One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

Ban Ki-moon

#19. Speed is not a priority, just enjoy your hike - Keep smile

Barry Perdana Putra

#20. I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while ... if you keep on walking.

Sylvester Stallone

#21. To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

Giada De Laurentiis

#22. The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Steve Buscemi

#23. Do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

Jack Johnson

#25. I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

Nanao Sakaki

#26. Anyone who makes my fantasies come true the way you do can't be real." I take his hands and place them on my breasts. "Everything about me is real.

Georgia Cates

#27. With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds.

Greg Keyes

#28. I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up; and 4 days walking on the Inca Trail, then more in the jungle, just magnificent - time, space, and splendour. Our planet is superb!

Jay Woodman

#29. Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

John Muir