#mountains

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#climb #climbs #expeditions #hell #money

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#body #everywhere #flowers #human #human body

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#blessings #climate #coal #easy #fertile

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#circular #compass #courses #go #heights

With faith the size of a mustard seed, you can indeed move a mountain, but you can hardly be expected to garnish your sandwich. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#faith #funny #humor #mountains #mustard-seed

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#faith #i #know #mountains #moves

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#dreams #freighted #memories #more #mountains

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#growing #growing up #guess #i #mountains

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#air #always #breath #cast #cent

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#find #mountains #only #tops #up