Brushes Quote by Marsden Hartley

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend…

— Sue Monk Kidd

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My…

— David Brainerd

Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the…

— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked…

— Sheila Walsh

“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves,…

— Vera Nazarian

In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor…

— Pope Pius XI

“The weeks up there were almost the most beautiful in my life. I breathed the pure, clear air, drank the icy water from streams…

— Hermann Hesse

“Contemplate for a moment hiking up a wild and rugged mountain. The mountain itself is a challenge, as well as the experience of beauty…

— Steve Sanchez

“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood…

— Norman MacCaig

Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have…

— Khalil Gibran

“Hence the dazzling mountain scene that takes our breath away should not provoke us to try to seize and freeze the moment, but to…

— Daniel J. Treier