Mountain Quotes - Page 17

• We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

  Jean Craighead George

  Horse, Smell, Pigs

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• On every mountain height is rest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Height

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• So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

  Victor Hugo

  Anger, Voice, Avalanches

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7002, Delphi Classics

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• I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Math, Intelligent

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• Traveler is my only companion; I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.

  Robert E. Lee

  Sweet, Wander, Enjoy

  "Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee".

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• The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Buddhist, Moving

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• We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.

  John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

  Christmas, Kings, Stars

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• Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Moving

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• First of all, who's your A&R?
  A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?
  But he don't know the meaning of dope,
  When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
  That's cleaner than a bar of soap!
  And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight,
  Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

  GZA

  Girl, Rap, Fighting

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• Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

  E. W. Howe

  Faith, Home, Long

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• How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

  Mian Mian

  Beautiful, Sunshine, Wind

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• Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold. But it's value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold is cold and lifeless, it can neither see nor hear. And in time of trouble, it is powerless to cheer. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

  Natalie

  Friendship, Cheer, True Friend

  "Boarding House Blues". "Compass" with Geraldine Doogue, www.abc.net.au. February 08, 2004.

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• When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

  John C. Baez

  Years, Inspirational Birthday, Doe

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• At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

  Robert Grudin

  Pain, Fall, Blue

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

  Gary Snyder

  Life, Ocean, Creativity

  Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

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• In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

  Princess Shikishi

  Spring, Tree, Sound

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• You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Li Po, “Green Mountain”

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• The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

  Li Bai

  Garden, Clouds, Sky

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• Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

  Erik Reece

  World, Sin, Modern

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• Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Life, Witty, Bad Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is.

  Debbie Shapiro

  Winning, Views, Play

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• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

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• Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

  David

  Gratitude, Growing Up, Rain

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• I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Beach, Squares

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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