When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).
Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.
I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.
Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who you really are. One is in the deep woods; one is in the desert; one in the mountains and one near the ocean
I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.
Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains?
The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
My altars are the mountains and the ocean.
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.
Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.
You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb. . . And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.
If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.