Mountain Quotes

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The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend… — Reginald Horace Blyth
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? — Michel de Montaigne
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat… — Mao Zedong
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant… — Unknown Author
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. — Laozi
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. — Wislawa Szymborska
The mountains were there and so was I. — Maurice Herzog
If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and… — Mike Harding
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. — William Henry Ashley
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. — William Henry Ashley
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a… — William Wordsworth
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical… — David Holmgren
He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage,… — Judy Grahn
I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of… — Yvon Chouinard
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;… — Orison Swett Marden
I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes. — B. Smith

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