Ancient Quote by Dogen

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose…

— John Muir

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes…

— Dogen

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

— Shailene Woodley

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

— May Sarton

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get…

— Robert Genn

“Before I had studied Chan for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate…

— Qingyuan Weixin

Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I…

— Anatoli Boukreev

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

— Ma Yansong

“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our heart-drum. It…

— Joan Halifax

The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

— Edwidge Danticat

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

— John Ruskin