Mountain Quotes - Page 19

• The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Snow, Ifs, Smoke

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.66, Vintage

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• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Philosophy, Heart, Winter

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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• Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.

  Thomas Berry

  Rain, Wind, Listening

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• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Past, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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• It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Voice, Suffering, Tasks

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• I died upon that mountain. There is no question. A part of me will forever be upon that mountain. Dead. That's my brothers died. If there's a part of me that live, because of my brothers. Because of them I am still alive, and I can never forget, that no matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall. You are never out of the fight.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Hurt, Brother, Fall

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• Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster.

  Penelope Lively

  Dream, Flower, Moving

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• Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

  George Saunders

  Real, Mean, Accomplishment

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Adversity, Wind

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• The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

  Ed Viesturs

  Art, Knowing, Retreat

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• If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.

  Reinhold Messner

  Self, Way, Responsible

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• The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain.

  Joe Greene

  Kings, Nfl

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• As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

  Kellie Pickler

  Emotional, Circles, Worry

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• I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

  Arsenio Hall

  Basketball, Ocean, Cities

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• America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

  Sam Watkins

  War, America, History

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• To succeed, you must have tremendous perserverance... tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the perservering soul; at my will mountains will crumble. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humble, Animal, Men

  1880 Man's Place in Nature.

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• I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

  Steve Daines

  Mountain Peaks, Climbing, Wyoming

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• There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Practice, Way

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Exercise, Climbing

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• Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

  Dogen

  Clouds, Wind, Riding

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• Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.

  Dogen

  Doubt, May, Walks

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Wings

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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