Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled… — Louis Kahn
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered… — Oscar Niemeyer
It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free… — Oscar Niemeyer
My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it… — Aldo Leopold
I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it,… — Annie Dillard
Streams and mountains never stay the same. — Gary Snyder
The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears. — Rick Bass
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine… — Edward Abbey
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,… — Thomas Jefferson
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and… — David Trimble
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. — Randall Munroe
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. — Robinson Jeffers
We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We… — Jean Craighead George
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question:… — George R. R. Martin
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such… — N. Scott Momaday
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers,… — Petrarch
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. — Russell Conwell
I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me -… — Audre Lorde
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms. — Swami Vivekananda
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and… — Meriwether Lewis
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its… — Paul Auster

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