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Mountain Quotes by John Berger
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through…
- The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
- The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and…
More Mountain Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the… — Edward Abbey
- Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it… — Bob Beauprez