Mountains Quotes

• We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Trunks

• I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Beginning
  • Places
  • Fascinated

• I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Product
  • Winds
  • Temperature

• We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • War
  • Nature
  • Mountains

• The soaring mountains rose around her, and the poets’ waters glittered beneath her in the valleys of memory—hosts of golden daffodils, Swallows and Amazons, Peter Rabbit.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Memory
  • Mountains
  • Poets

• The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Inspire
  • Mountains
  • Presence

• I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Friend
  • Mountains
  • YouTube

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