Mountain Quotes - Page 29

• I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Life, Spiritual, Disappointment

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• In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

  Silas House

  New York, Real, People

  Silas House, Neela Vaswani (2012). “Same Sun Here”, p.7, Candlewick Press

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• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Circles, Lightning

  Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

  Earl Hamner, Jr.

  Sky, People, Feelings

  "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Waltons" ("The Hunt", 1972), www.imdb.com. (1971–1981).

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• I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, "Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!"

  Margaret Cho

  Workout, Jesus, Crazy

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Pride, Boys, Joy

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7

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• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Laughter, Army

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

  Isabel Paterson

  Moving, Ideas, Abstraction

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.18, Transaction Publishers

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Vegas, Cities, Desert

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
  That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
  I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
  Just leave me to despair
  Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
  A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die
  I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye
  The love we knew, ain't worth another try

  Don McLean

  Dream, Song, Wall

  Song: Castles in The Air

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• I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces
  I sing my heart out to the infinite sea
  I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains
  I sing my song to the free.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Heart, Space

  Song: Song Is Over

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• On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Hopeful, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.

  George Meade

  War, Higher Ground, Way

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• Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Friday, Running, Jesus

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• Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Rain, Mountain Ranges, Design

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Mother, Rain, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

  Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne

  Rocks, Ideas, Water

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• If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking.

  Robin Sharma

  Views, Valleys, Breathtaking

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• I stood within the city disinterred;
  And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls
  Of spirits passng through the streets;
  and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals
  Thrill through those roofless halls;
  The oracular thunder penetrating shook
  The listening soul in my suspended blood.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Light, Blood, Cities

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.544

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Moving, Men, Differences

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• The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.

  Dave McClure

  Entrepreneur, Path

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2012

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• But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Insane, Notes

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspiration, Nuts, Perfection

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 19, 2012

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• Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone.

  William O. Douglas

  Inspiration, Adversity, Men

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dream, Gratitude, Stars

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus”, p.323

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