Mountain Quotes

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Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether itâ€™s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an… — Zooey Deschanel
If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock,… — Olive Schreiner
Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your… — Edward Abbey
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace. — Ann Voskamp
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. — George Sand
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is… — George Eliot
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers. — Richard Paul Evans
Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain. — Frida Kahlo
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential… — Ansel Adams
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving; as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If youâ€™re… — Joseph Cook
A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland,… — George Mikes
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds… — Frederic Farrar
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means… — W. Somerset Maugham
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,… — Mao Zedong
We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains. — May Sarton
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre

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