Mountain Quotes
I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.
The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.
A faith that moves mountains is a faith that expands horizons, it does not bring us into a smaller world full of easy answers, but into a larger one where there is room for wonder.
The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.
Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
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.
Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.
I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.
The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.
The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.
I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.
All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.
You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.
Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.