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Do you hear me, mountain?' She yelled into the storm. I'm not giving in. I crossed an ocean to get here. I climbed this mountain. I will not let her die. By Lili Wilkinson Mountain Hear Storm Yelled Giving

Don't focus on the mountain; focus instead on the mountain mover! HS/el By Evinda Lepins Mountain Mover Focus

mountain range in northwestern By Hank Woon Mountain Northwestern Range

A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit. By Earl Hamner Jr. People Mountain Mountains Beauty Skies

Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men By Hanshan Mountain Tigers Forever Peaceful World

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. By John Ruskin Mountains Scenery Beginning End Natural

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up. By John Muir Mountains Scenery Beginning End Natural

For every mountain, there is a miracle. By Robert H. Schuller Mountain Miracle

The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain. By Jan Smuts Religion Mountain Sublime Ladder Eternally

The mountain consisted of a giant cone of blue-gray rock and was surrounded by an endless, barren highland studded with a few trees charred by fire and overgrown with gray moss and gray brush, out of which here and there brown boulders jutted up like rotten teeth. Even by light of day, the region was so dismal and dreary that the poorest shepherd in this poverty-stricken province would not have driven his animals here. And by night, by the bleaching light of the moon, it was such a godforsaken wilderness that it seemed not of this world. By Patrick Suskind Gray Endless Barren Brush Teeth

Master the courage to conquer any mountain By Lailah Gifty Akita Master Mountain Courage Conquer

You are the mountain and the valley. By Hildegard Of Bingen Valley Mountain

It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience. By Vernon Johns Experience Good Possessor Mountaintop

Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship ... From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn. By Anatoli Boukreev Cathedrals Grand Pure Religion Houses

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water. By Shailene Woodley Lot Water Mountains

They say behind mountains are more mountains. By Edwidge Danticat Mountains

Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds? By Hanshan Cold Mountain Roads Climb Deep

Mountains are both journey and destination. They summon us to climb their slopes, explore their canyons, and attempt their summits. The summit, despite months of preparation and toil, is never guaranteed though tastes of sweet nectar when reached. If my only goal as a teacher and mountaineer is the summit, I risk cruel failure if I do not reach the highest apex. Instead, if I accept the mountain's invitation to journey and create meaning in each step, success is manifest in every moment. By T.a. Loeffler Summit Destination Journey Summits Slopes

No matter how the wind howls. The mountain cannot bow to it. By Walt Disney Company Howls Matter Wind Mountain Bow

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain. By George Russell Mountain Side

On every mountain height is rest. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Rest Mountain Height

Adversity is mountain in adventure By Lailah Gifty Akita Adversity Adventure Mountain

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why? By Emily Carr Morning Thought Mountain Coming Sulked

What beauty could be your life's mountain peak which you could climb all the way up? By Sorin Cerin Beauty Life Mountain Peak Climb

Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God. By Wojciech Kurtyka Classic Imagination Mountaineering Grows Traditional

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain. By Josephine Tey Mountain Puts Things Perspective Quickly

You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage. By Lailah Gifty Akita Faith Hope Courage Conquer Mountain

In every building, in every garden, at every turn the visitor finds the austere beauty and simplicity of color and form that are the Mountain ideal. The overall impression that one carries away is of tranquillity and joy in the natural world. The chosen simplicity of life there may lead the visitor to question his own choice in life. By Robin Hobb Mountain Building Garden Ideal Visitor

Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace. By Ann Voskamp Christian Lord Faces Grace Mountain

I am as oneWho doth attempt some lofty mountain's height,And having gained what to the upcast eyeThe summit's point appear'd, astonished seesIts cloudy top, majestic and enlarged,Towering aloft, as distant as before. By Joanna Baillie Astonished Top Majestic Aloft Onewho

I was meeting a mountain. I meant to kiss her in secret. I meant to wed her under the midnight dark. The prettiest mountain you ever saw, sparkling with snow in all the right places, rich with granite and tourmaline and silver, sturdy and sensible and weathered by experience of eons. When she saw me, my mountain's pine trees bristled and the wind in her heights whistled my name. When I saw her, I felt rivers break through the rock of my heart and carve me into a new shape. By Catherynne M Valente Meant Mountain Meeting Secret Kiss

The mountains are calling and I must go. By John Muir Mountains Calling

Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must. By Harriet Beecher Stowe Mountains Anguish Testimonials Nature Stern

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die. By Frank Lowy Mountain Big Question Reach Top

We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. By Li Bai Mountain Remains Sit

The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul. By Heather Day Gilbert Soul Pull Mountain Gravity

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. By Victor Hugo Mountain Ugly Garden Constitutes Beauty

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them? By Michel De Montaigne Kind Truth Mountains Boundary Lie

In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature. By Pope Pius Xi Mountaintops Purer Limb Laborious Efforts

What are men to rocks and mountains? By Jane Austen Mountains Men Rocks

A sense of solemn aspiration comes upon us as we view the mountain. We are uplifted. The entire scale of being is raised. Our outlook on life seems all at once to have been heightened. And not only is there this sense of elevation: we seem purified also. Meanness, pettiness, paltriness seem to shrink away abashed at the sight of that radiant purity. By Francis Younghusband Mountain Solemn Aspiration View Sense

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man. By Aron Ralston Man End Mountains Goal Reach

... where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas. By Bernadette Mcdonald Himalayas Sacred Risk Death Companions

Man. Motorcyle. Mountains. By Tracy March Man Motorcyle Mountains

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. By Ansel Adams Denied Matter Sophisticated Large Granite

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain. By Haruki Murakami View Season Day Mind Thing

To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water. By Jeffrey Rasley Body Mind Sword Soft Water

There is a Precious Mountain Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare A cold moon rises through the pines Layer upon layer of bright clouds How many towering peaks? How many wandering miles? The valley streams run clear Happiness forever! By Hanshan Layer Precious Mountain Treasures Peaks

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces - all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand. By Bear Grylls Hard Freezing Icy Faces Single

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb. By Katarina Witt Climb Sort Person Big Mountain

Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death for his irreverence. By Ademola Adejumo Irreverence Touches Mountain Put Death

We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character. By Joe Rohde Meaning Enlightenment Selfrealization Adventure Discovery

You know, the mountains are full of dangers, and they swallow you up. But mostly, they give. By Doug Coombs Dangers Mountains Full Swallow Give

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. By Victoria Erickson Deeper Oceans Deserts Landscapes Beauty

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen. By Craig D. Lounsbrough God Happen Mountain Road Waiting

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred. By Artie Lange Helpless Motionless Mountain Realize Big

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. By John Muir Rivers Glaciers Soil Mountains Men

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.You can climb it and cross to the other side.You can go around it.You can dig under it.You can fly over it.You can blow it up.You can ignore it and pretend it's not there.You can turn around and go back the way you came.Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. By Vera Nazarian Ityou Mountain Home Faced Optionsyou

Once you have lived with mountains for any length of time you belong to them, and must return again and again. Nearly By Ruskin Bond Lived Mountains Length Time Belong

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. By Charles Lamb Separate Company Life Pleasure Care

You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So ... get on your way! By Dr. Seuss Places Today Great Day Waitingso

On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain. By Larry Niven Specification Exist World Mountain Built

We can only climb the mountains because there's a valley that makes the mountain a mountain. By Craig D. Lounsbrough Mountain Climb Valley Makes Mountains

Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom. By V. Raymond Edman Frustration Gloom Soul Turn Back

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. By George Herbert Neighbours Mountaine River Good

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end. By Jon Krakauer Immutable Concrete Achieving Tangible Summit

With a mighty mind, you can conquer every mountain. By Lailah Gifty Akita Mind Mountain Mighty Conquer

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. By Bradley Chicho Highest Heights Climb Mountain Feel

Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face. By Idowu Koyenikan Bigger Mountains Problem Face Develop

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me. By Jimi Hendrix Mountains Fall

Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him. By Nan Shepherd Mountain Destination Completely Reach Visits

Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a mountain veiled with blue mist. Is it not beautiful?" The Ear listened, and after listening intently awhile, said, "But where is any mountain? I By Kahlil Gibran Eye Day Mist Valleys Veiled

The mountain is never as big as it appears. You're never as small as you believe. By Steve Maraboli Mountain Big Small

Taniquetil, glorious to behold, loftiest of all mountains clad in purest snow, By Anonymous Taniquetil Glorious Behold Loftiest Snow

All mountain people are like that. No matter where you go, the mountains call you back. By Karan Bajaj People Back Mountain Mountains Matter

The weather was still cold, but I was not. The blood thrummed near the surface of my skin, and I felt heat rise in my palms. I reached a hand out to the pine that stood by me, drops of water trembling on each needle, its bark black with wet. I breathed its scent and let the water touch my skin, cool as vapor. The rain fell in shushing stillness all around me, dampening my clothes 'til they clung to me softly, like clouds upon the mountain. Jamie had told me once that he must live on a mountain, and I knew now why this was so - though I could in no wise have put the notion into words. All my scattered thoughts receded, as I listened for the voice of rocks and trees - and heard the bell of the mountain strike once, somewhere deep beneath my feet. By Diana Gabaldon Cold Skin Mountain Weather Water

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again. By Oprah Winfrey Mountain Choices Vision Upward Spend

Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks. By David Breashears Everest Rocks Forget Big Pile

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe. By Steve Earle Home Woe Born Holds Worry

You do not need to be a mountain to feel strong. Be like a little flexible stream to have true power. By Debasish Mridha Strong Mountain Feel Power Flexible

There are no mighty mountains for the universe, because there are no mountains for the universe, no rivers, no sun and no clouds! There is only universe for the universe, just a single entity! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Universe Mountains Rivers Clouds Mighty

Feel yourself climbing the mountain. By A.d. Posey Feel Mountain Climbing

According to your proclivities, you may take a snow-clad Alpine peak, as it rises to the empyrean in radiant majesty, as symbol of man's aspiration to union with the Infinite; or since, if you like to believe that, a mountain range may be thrown up by some violent convulsion in the earth's depths, you may take it as a symbol of the dark and sinister passions of man that lour to destroy him; or, if you want to be in the fashion, you may take it as a phallic symbol. By W. Somerset Maugham Symbol Man Infinite Alpine Proclivities

I saw the mountain, impassible, cavernous, secret, where from morning to night I'd hear nothing but the wind, the curlews, the clink like distant silver of the stone-cutters' hammers. By Samuel Beckett Impassible Cavernous Secret Hammers Mountain

Whence come the highest mountains? so did I once ask. Then did I learn that they come out of the sea.That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height. By Friedrich Nietzsche Mountains Highest Stones Summits Height

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. By Nanao Sakaki Climb Mountains Mountain

You get up one day and somebody has taken one of the mountains away By Simon Armitage Day Mountains

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help! By Robert H. Schuller Quit Mountain Faced God Find

Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. By Wojciech Kurtyka Difficult Freedom Struggle Mountaineering Rise

What river can flood over the mountains of your love? By Sorin Cerin Love River Flood Mountains

Enjoy the mountains; they have beauty and wisdom for us if we approach them with humility, respect, and knowledge. By Charles Houston Respect Enjoy Mountains Humility Knowledge

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path,The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on:The long gorge choked with scree and boulders,The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass.The moss is slippery, though there's been no rainThe pine sings, but there's no wind.Who can leap the world's tiesAnd sit with me among the white clouds? By Gary Snyder Cold Mountain Clambering Creek Slippery

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering. By Doug Scott Risks Weather Mountaineering Taking Total

When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you? By Ricardo Viana Vargas Quit People Mountains Kinds Walk

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit. By Jim Whittaker Conquer Mountain Aches Fears Sickness

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories. By Donald Miller Stories Mountains Call Greater

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there. By Nancy Garden Hard Thing Mountains Climbing View

Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent viewand feel exaltedand your eyes are full of happy tearsand you want to singand wish you had wings! And thenyou can't stay there, but must continue your journeyyou begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten. By Lloyd C. Douglas Journey Plains Grades Mountain Wings

Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions. By George Minot Conditions Mountain Peace Matter External

There are different ways to climb a mountain. By Unknown Mountain Climb