Mountains Quotes

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

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

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.

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.

I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.