450 Quotes About Mountains

In the midst of a thousand clouds and countless watersthere is an idle person.By day, he roams the green mountains,at night, he returns to sleep beneath the cliff.Quickly, the seasons passin serenity, with no worldly bonds.How joyful! What does he depend upon?Quiet, like a large autumn river.

Beneath the moon, chilly winds blow through the pinesas wisps of clouds arise.So many mountain ridges layer into each otherfor miles around!The valley stream is quiet and clear --I'm not done with this boundless joy.

Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.

Once, men and women were able to turn themselves into eagles and fly immense distances. They communed with rivers and mountains and received wisdom from them. They felt the turning of the stars inside their own minds.

You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?" Came the inquiry."Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?""It is called Karakal""I don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high?""Over twenty-eight thousand feet.""Indeed? I didn't realize there would be anything on that scale outside the Himalayas. Has it been properly surveyed? Whose are the measurements?""Whose would you expect, my dear sir? Is there anything incompatible between monasticism and trigonometry?

I had this dream about you. We went hunting up in the mountains and I caught a unicorn. You told me now I know how it feels to be you.