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Mountain Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of…
- I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
- When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you…
- Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
- I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles…
- What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and…
- ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of…
- You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
- In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere…
- O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of…
- The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.
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
- Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor… — Joseph Addison
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake