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.
The view we enjoyed from the summit [of Mount Rainier] could hardly be surpassed in sublimity and grandeur; but one feels far from home so high in the sky, so much so that one is inclined to guess that, apart from the acquisition of knowledge and the exhilaration of climbing, more pleasure is to be found at the foot of the mountains than on their tops. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below.
john muir— "Washington and the Puget Sound" in Picturesque California (1888-1890); reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 20
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is to high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
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
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
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
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.
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
It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb
bono— I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
carrie underwood— From her hit single, So Small from the album, Carnival Ride (2007).
Someone sits in a mountain vale A robe of clouds, rainbows for tassels The fragrant forest is the place to live The road has been long and difficult With a heart full of doubt and regret A life has passed and nothing has been accomplished Others call it failure I stand alone devoted to this Cold mountain life
han shan— 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
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.
Charles Lamb— Letter to Wordsworth (January 30, 1801)
Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
Rainer Maria Rilke— Quoted in Rilke's Letters on Cézanne, foreword (1952, trans. 1985).
Parasnath, a mountain in Bihar of great sanctity; it is the eastern, as Mount Abu is the western metropolis of Jain worship and pilgrimage. Ten thousand, annually, from distant parts of India, visit the scene of Nirvana or beatific annihilation of the ten of the 24 deified saints or Thirthankars, who are the objects of Jain adoration; and from the last of these, Parswa or Parswanatha, the hill originally called samet Sikhar took its better known name as Parasnath.
Subodh Kapoor— Indian Encyclopaedia, Volume 1 (2002, pg. 5499)
...a vision of daring and dainty loveliness, of story of rosy masonry and delicate overhanging balconies and latticed windows, soaring with tier after tier of fanciful architecture in a pyramidal form, a very mountain of airy and audacious beauty , through the thousdnad pierced screens and gilded arches of which the Indian air blows cool over the flt roofs of the very highest house. Alladin’s magician could have called into existence no more marvelous abode.
— Sir Edwin Arnold describes the structure as of Sarcenic Order of architecture, in p.210
See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is merely showing its contempt for the dogs.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIII, Epigram 99.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 5, line 9
Abraham named the place Yahweh -Yireh (which means "the LORD will provide"). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb : "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
— New Living Translation (2007).
It does not have the same unchanging character as a mountain or a river ; it is a recent and ephemeral product.
— Soil, in Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, p.37
If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I’ve forgotten the road by which I came
han shan— 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
Climb the steep Cold mountain way Roads to Cold mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds?
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet
