Mountain Quotes

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

The mountains were there and so was I.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

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

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss.

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

Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks.

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.