Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled… — Andy Couturier
Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills. — Cliff Asness
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of… — Mao Zedong
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy… — John O'Donohue
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night… — Thomas Gray
Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months… — Colin Fletcher
I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. — Nanao Sakaki
My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live.… — Ryan Sypek
It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two… — Georges Simenon
Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so. — Joshua Kushner
Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a… — Anatoli Boukreev
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind… — Paul Kingsnorth
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great… — Albert Pike
From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it… — Robert Southey
I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe. — Steve Earle
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains… — Robert Macfarlane
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected… — John Steinbeck
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves… — Jacob Grimm
Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the… — Roy Chapman Andrews
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,… — Galileo Galilei
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine? — Jimi Hendrix
Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.... — Ed Viesturs

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