#mountain

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#around #colder #concert #gave #i

Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle. ↗

— Bill Cullen

#before #commuting #country #end #every

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#centuries #freshness #joy #lightness #linked

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain. ↗

— James Wolcott

#believe #best #bring #collections #enjoy

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. ↗

— Kate Seredy

#doubt #fear #heart #kill #mountains

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#been #hobby #huge #mine #mountaineering

I wanted a good place to settle: Cold Mountain would be safe. Light wind in a hidden pine - Listen close - the sound gets better. Under it a gray haired man Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao. For ten years I havn't gone back home I've even forgotten the way by which I came. ↗

— Gary Snyder

#han-shan #home

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news ↗

— John Muir

#materialism #mountains #nature #wildness-is-a-necessity #life

We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#love #mountains #life

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain? ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#life #mountain #perception #reality #stone