Mountains Quotes

• We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they’ve got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.

  

  Bruce Barcott
  • People
  • Stories
  • Mountains

• The man of humanity delights in mountains.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Humanity
  • Mountains

• I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains.

  

  Alexei Yagudin
  • Person
  • Mountains
  • Skate

• The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fall
  • Fair
  • Elder Days

• Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

  

  Eric Knight
  • Created
  • Mountains
  • Grains

• Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Mountains
  • Rivers
  • Purified

• He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Dreams
  • Mountains
  • Wondering

• At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

  

  Anna Kavan
  • Feel
  • Mountains
  • Identified

• I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

  

  Ezra Cornell
  • Moon
  • Mountains
  • Telescopes

• I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

  

  Anna Kavan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Mountains

• ...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Attention
  • Woman
  • Voice

• Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth! Smile, for your lover comes!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Smile
  • Lover

• Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Fight
  • Land

• And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

  

  William Blake
  • Mountains
  • Ancient
  • Lamb Of God

• The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Faith
  • Worship

• The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.

  

  Edward Whymper
  • Men
  • Stronger
  • Mountains

• These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

  

  David Daniels
  • Might
  • Given
  • Depressed

• Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?

  

  Karl Jakob Weber
  • Technology
  • Moving
  • Mountains

• It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.

  

  Michael Kennedy
  • Pleasure
  • Foot
  • Dynamic

• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Heart
  • Mountains
  • Minute

• In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

  

  Bette Lord
  • Honor
  • Chinese
  • Civilization

• Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mountains
  • Waterfalls
  • Tookish

• They say behind mountains are more mountains.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Mountains

• Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.

  

  Alfred William Howitt
  • Nature
  • Mountains
  • Beauties

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