#mountains

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#god #life #listening #mountains #nature

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. ↗

— Mark Udall

#creativity #emotionally #fatal #get #helps

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#angst #climb #enormous #existential #feel

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#boarding #brother #doing #family #fun

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#crazy #get #go #got #home

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

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born. ↗

— Horace

#go #into #labour #little #mountains

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#dwell #greatest #guide #may #migrations

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