Mountain Quotes

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I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep,… — Dalai Lama
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. — Horace
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high. — Wilma Rudolph
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to… — Rajneesh
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the… — Andrew Peterson
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole… — Zhuangzi
The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours?… — Greg LeMond
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough. — Stuart Briscoe
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the… — Black Elk
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath… — Alfred the Great
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this… — William Blake
You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself. — Jim Whittaker
Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river. — Laozi
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins

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