Mountain Quotes
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I am forgetting myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep. This is wrong. A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it.
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More Mountain Quotes
If you go over desert and mountain, Far into the country of Sorrow, To-day and to-night and to-morrow, And maybe for months and for years; You shall come with a heart that is bursting For trouble and toiling and thirsting, You shall certainly come to the fountain At length, to the Fountain of Tears.
— A. W. E. O'Shaughnessy, The Fountain of Tears.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is to high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.
robert haugen— Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 2
Until last year, although this town was barely fifty miles from Denver, the road had been bad and only a handful of visitors had chanced on it. The increasing tendency for people to take mountain vacations, however, since the sea had become too filthy to be tolerable, could not be ignored. The road now was excellent and the area had exploded.
john brunner— January “SNOW JOB”
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run And the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun Long before the white man and long before the wheel When the green dark forest was too silent to be real... Oh! The song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won On the mountain tops we stand All the world at our command We have opened up the soil with our teardrops and our toil
gordon lightfoot— Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Track 11, United Artists YouTube video
I dreamed a place where I have come to dwell Cold mountain says it all Monkeys scream, the valley fog is cold My door blends with the color of the peaks I gather leaves and thatch a hut among the pines Dig a pond and lead a trickle from the brook Long ago I left the world behind Eating ferns I pass the years in peace
hanshan— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.
edmund hillary— As quoted in Great Climbs: A Celebration of World Mountaineering (1994) by Sir Chris Bonington.
Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are brightOn river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.
charles jeffreys— Come, wander with me, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Picture this:A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree.
sheri s. tepper— Ch. 1 : caigo faience, first lines
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
dag hammarskjöld— Dag Hammarskjold, Markings (1964).
He grew, and grew, A star-bright sign of fated empery; And all conspiring omens led him on To lofty purpose and pre-eminence. The mountain eagles, towering in their pride, Stoop'd at his beck and flock'd about his path, Like the small birds by wintry famine tamed; Or with their dusky and expansive wings Shaded and fann'd him as he slept at noon. The lightnings danced before him sportively, And shone innocuous as the pale cold moon In the clear blue of his celestial eye.
hartley coleridge— Sylphs. (Prometheus)
The prophet [ Isaiah ]... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.
maimonides— Ch.11 (Part III)
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
john muir— chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish ; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion , A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain , or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world , And mock our eyes with air : thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act IV, Stanza 14, line 2.
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
john ruskin— John Ruskin, A Tour on the Continent, Via Mala.
Baedeker is astonishingly enduring; travellers can use nineteenth-century editions with confidence, providing they take some elementary precautions. Many hotels will long since have disappeared, and the prices will be somewhat different, but if Baedeker says'On leaving the tunnel, the best view is on the right', it probably still is, unless somebody has shifted the mountain, and his descriptions of sceneryand where to go to see it at its best are still valid, as ispracticallyall of his potted history.
(Henry) Bernard Levin— 1985 Hannibal's Footsteps.
Formerly when the Govardhanagiri (mountain) was raised aloft by a little boy, the gopis and gopalas realised that Krishna was the Lord. Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted, you will see!
sathya sai baba— Sathya Sai Speaks Vol.3 New Edition, p. 92,
The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.
benjamin, park, sr.— To One Beloved
'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
thomas campbell— Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, part i, line 7.
"I know there are tigers in the mountain, but I still go to the mountain."
— Watts, J. 2005, 'Chinese activist vows to continue, despite beating', The Guardian, 12 October.
When Christ went up into a mountain apart to pray, He dismissed the multitude, to teach us that when we address ourselves to God, we must first dismiss the multitude. We must send away the multitude of worldly cares, worldly thoughts, worldly concerns and business, when we would call upon God in duty.
— William Burkitt, p. 465. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
This being great news to me, I pressed Kivoi for further information. He said, 'You will see both mountains at some distance from my hamlet, when there shall be a clear sky. It is ten days' journey from here to the white mountain in Jagga [Kilimanjaro], but only six to that of Kikuyu [Mount Kenya].' ~ Johann Ludwig Krapf
— Written by Krapf in his diary on 1949-11-26, the day he found out of the existence of a second, and still larger, Kiima ja Jeu [mountain of whiteness] [than Kilimanjaro].
By field and by fell, and by mountain gorge, Shone Hyacinths blue and clear.
— Lucy Hooper, Legends of Flowers, Stanza 3.
Petrus Comestor saith that Mount Olympus riseth even to the clear aether, wherefore letters written in the dust on the summit of that mountain have been found unchanged after the lapse of a whole year. Neither can birds live there, by reason of the rarefaction of the air, nor could the Philosophers who have ascended it remain there even for a brief space of time, without sponges soaked in water, which they applied to their nostrils and sucked thence a denser air.
— Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale Book 1, ch. 84. Translation by G. G. Coulton, in his Life in the Middle Ages (1929) Volume 2, p. 5.
Cold mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
