Mountain Quotes - Page 34

• Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Moving, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Climbing, Two, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

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• This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Stars, Mean

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• God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

  Rob Brezsny

  God, Pilots

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.284, Frog Books

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• If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

  Benito Mussolini

  Leadership, Reality, Giving

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• One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.337

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• I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can

  Edmund Hillary

  Motivational, Conquer, Grows

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• We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Ocean, Lakes

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.188, Counterpoint Press

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• My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mother, Wall, Clouds

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• Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Land, Parent

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.

  Wendell Berry

  Kentucky, Order, Ifs And

  "Taking Care of What We’ve Been Given". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. April 15, 2006.

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• I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Air, Circles, Water

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• When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

  Isaac Stern

  Believe, Moving, Belief

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• Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains.

  Mao Zedong

  Song, Horse, Fall

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least to the passes of the Mountains, and maybe beyond. For Men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Son, Men, Dwarves

  "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring". Book by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954.

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• Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.

  Rory Stewart

  Seems

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• When I was out of work when I first moved to L.A., one of the first things my husband and I did was buy season's passes to Disney and whenever I was bummed out about work, we would go to Space Mountain, and it was like a physical injection of anti-depressants.

  Melissa Rauch

  Husband, Space, Firsts

  "Talking About Carnivals with Melissa Rauch". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• ...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

  Pat Conroy

  Break Off, Rivers, Snow

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• Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.

  Ed Viesturs

  Moon, Night, Feet

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• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

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• The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

  Zig Ziglar

  Helping Others, Mountain Peaks, Self

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• If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

  Olive Schreiner

  Running, Rocks, Blue

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• Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Christian, Grace, Levels

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• No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Purple, Gorges

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• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye

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