#mountains

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#heart #human #human heart #like #line

[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

What are men to rocks and mountains? ↗

— Jane Austen

#mountains #rocks #men

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

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! ↗

— Jules Verne

#between #covered #curtain #earth #extended

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ↗

— Dogen

#buddha #color #great #his #mountains

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#before #computers #connect #equally #lines

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado. ↗

— Joe Lando

#colorado #day #every #every day #farm

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

#anything #close #doing #i #mountains