(809 quotes found)
“The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
John Muir
“From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives”
“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.”
Jean Paul Richter
“In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him”
Bhagavad Gita
“The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.”
Dogen
“As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.”
William Arthur Ward
“Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I, too, will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.”
Fiona Macleod
