#mountains

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits. ↗

— Harley King

#dreams #mountains #courage

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#back #control #demand #humility #lack

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #experience

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). ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #nature

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #nature

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. ↗

— Isabella L. Bird

#mountains #travel #beauty

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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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 can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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