115 Quotes About Hills

Surely,” he said, “the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom’s fount. They are deep in time. They know the ways of the sun and the wind, the lightning’s fiery feet, the frost that shattereth, the rain that shroudeth, the snow that putteth about their nakedness a softer coverlet than fine lawn.

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries,Old veinsThat hold Glamorgan's blood.The midnight miner in the secret seams,Limb, life, and bread.- Rhondda Valley

Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.

And the dreaded day has arrived, slowly but surely, through the course of the night, one hour nudging the next along. And now, look: It's peeking above the hills.

Smoky hills that loomed like ogres.

Listen Mr. Namaki, you're a king to meYou're a symbol of what we should strive to beIn this modern day and age, you're an alchemist So let me join you, sing your song up the hills

My tea has overbrewed: it is bitter, but still drinkable. I turn on the television and return to the present. Four plump humanoid creatures, red, yellow, green and purple, are frolicking on a grassy hill. Rabbits nibble the grass. The creatures hug each other. A periscope emerges from a knoll and tells them they must say goodbye. After a little protest, they do, jumping one by one into a hole in the ground.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills.