Mountains Quotes

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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
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at… — Saint Augustine
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. — Edward Abbey
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake
Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder. — Andrea Bocelli
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the… — Tom Bodett
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the… — Bill Bradley
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.… — Bill Bryson
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or… — Maurice Chevalier
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. — Henri Frederic Amiel
We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. — Winston Churchill
Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like… — Jacques Loeb
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the… — Milarepa
We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for… — Pope John Paul II
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to… — Edward McKendree Bounds
There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know,… — Rajneesh
The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its… — Sun Tzu

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