The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes. . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father withininto me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.
So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters. ” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.
There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable.
Traveller is my only companion. . . He and I. . . wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.
With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World
Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.