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Mountains 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…
More Mountains Quotes
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- 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
- 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… — Tom Bodett
- Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this… — 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… — Bill Bryson
- If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed,… — Maurice Chevalier
- Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel