Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… — Rebecca Solnit
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. — Jim Harrison
Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… — Annie Dillard
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content… — Robert M. Pirsig
It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America?… — Tori Amos
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains… — Emily Dickinson
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath
When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly… — William Butler Yeats
I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. — SaigyÅ
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing… — Cormac McCarthy
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to… — Max Weber
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all… — Diana Gabaldon
I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains — Annie Dillard
To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,… — Charles Bukowski
Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. — Kate DiCamillo
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... — John Muir
Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains. — Kobayashi Issa
See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. — Jack Kerouac
The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing… — John O'Donohue

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