#mountains

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#mountains #peace #life

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#been #cold #country #day #fair

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#been #black #canadian #descended #engage

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#before #believe #built #clown #coming

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#addicted #climbing #environment #extraordinary #i

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

#bigger #brooks #got #into #lot

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ↗

— George William Curtis

#area #certain #country #land #loyalty

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#difference #mountains #saints #time

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. ↗

— Kate Adie

#any #child #did #frightened #i

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#artist #color #create #creating #creation