Mother writes that the Americans are perfectly sweet, as are the Rocky Mountains
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
Unni will come, if not today, then tomorrow. Today is nearly gone, but other todays stir fecund in the word tomorrow, many other todays when this one has lapsed from existence. And because I think of Unni, invoking his name in this for ever recurrent...
... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle his own eternity of aloneness. And love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and prote...
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and ...
Lureen Newsome: He always said he wanted his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain, but I wasn't sure where that was. I thought Brokeback Mountain might be around where he grew up. Knowing Jack, it was probably some pretend place, where bluebirds sin...
Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.
I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
The mountains make the mist and the valleys must consume them.
When a camel is at the foot of a mountain then judge of his height.
You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone.
A day-old pigeon cannot fly over a mountain pass.
Death is not found behind mountains but right behind our shoulders.
Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to ...
He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirpi...
The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not ...
