Mountain Quotes

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Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and… — Rudolf Otto
Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever. — David R. Brower
It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but… — Aldo Leopold
Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles. — Rhonda Byrne
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can… — Annie Dillard
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls,… — Mark Twain
Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot… — Mao Zedong
Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons of white jade… — Mao Zedong
And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly… — Czeslaw Milosz
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds… — Rajneesh
God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain. — Rob Brezsny
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;… — Theodore Roethke
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion… — Benito Mussolini
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can — Edmund Hillary
My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a… — Barry Goldwater

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