Mark Obmascik - Mountains

“I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what’s important in life.” ~Mark Obmascik

Featured Quote: REFLECTION

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"I love the Beauty of the reflection of the Beauty of the mountains and clouds above the surface of the water of the river." ~Leah C. Dancel, 29 April 2022

Veronika Jensen - Weight of Mountains

"Survivors don't always flaunt their wings, but when they do, you better believe them to be strong. They've carried a weight of mountains with no one to help." ~Veronika Jensen 

Anatoli Boukreev - Mountains

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” ~Anatoli Boukreev

John Murray - Grizzly countryside

"Those who have packed far up into grizzly country know that the presence of even one grizzly on the land elevates the mountains, deepens the canyons, chills the winds, brightens the stars, darkens the forest, and quickens the pulse of all who enter it." ~John Murray

THEODORE ROETHKE Quotes (1908-1963)

 "Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." ~Theodore Roethke"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." ~Theodore Roethke "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." ~Theodore Roethke "Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." ~Theodore Roethke "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." ~Theodore Roethke 

"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." ~Theodore Roethke

Quotes on MOUNTAINS

Mt. Pulag, Mountain Province
Philippines
Photo Credit: Jollee A Baeyens

"A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I."  ~Li Bai

“A younger me needed to climb every mountain. The older me says they photograph better from the bottom.” ~Sophie Marland

“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” ~Victoria Erickson

"Be still like a mountain, and flow like a great river." ~Lao Tzu

"Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills." -William A. Ward

"Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." ~John Muir

"Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge." ~David McCullough Jr.

"Do not fail to learn from the pure voice of an ever-flowing mountain stream splashing over the rocks." ~Morihei Ueshiba

 “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” ~John Lubbock

"Even a mountain has its own illusion. It thinks it is above all else until it realises that it can never compete with the sky and stars. Man, like a mountain, has so many self-illusion: that we are superior among the rest, we possess the only truth, and we can do everything. Then, we realise that like a mountain there is a limit to what we can reach..." ~‎Rado Gatchalian on #Reflection

“Everything is so big—the sky, the mountains, the wind-swept flatlands—it sinks into you, it shapes your body and your dreams.” ~Christopher Paolini

"Faith move mountains. Love transforms hearts." ~John Paul Warren

"Give me the wild children with their bare feet and sparkling eyes. The restless churning climbers. The wild ones using their outside voices, singing all the way home. Give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers dreaming of mountains and mud, aching to run through a field of stars." ~Nicolette Sond

"Going to the mountains is going home.”   ~John Muir

"Great leaders may be found at the top of a mountain looking back upon their challenges, but the greatest leaders are often found at the foot of the mountain still helping others reach that summit." ~Robert Clancy on Lead from the Heart

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" ~John Muir

"How you climb up the mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. And so, it is with life, which for many of us becomes one gigantic test followed by one gigantic lesson. In the end, it all comes down to one word - GRACE. It's how you accept WINNING and LOSING, GOOD LUCK and BAD LUCK, the darkness and the LIGHT." ~Anon on Philosophy of Life

“I learn something every time I go into the mountains.” ~Michael Kennedy

“I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what’s important in life.” ~Mark Obmascik

"I love the Beauty of the reflection of the Beauty of the mountains and clouds above the surface of the water of the river." ~Leah C. Dancel, April 30, 2022 on the spectacular view of Lake  McDonald of Glacier National Park by Jack Bell Photography, #tonguetwister

"I thank God for the mountains I have had to climb, the storms I have faced, and the tears I have shed, as they have made me understand how strong I really am and how blessed I am when the road is smooth, the sky is clear, and my soul has a reason to smile." ~Mountain wisdom

“If you need me, you can find me in the mountains” ~Anon 

"In stillness like the mountain; in motion like the river." ~Wang Zong Yue

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." ~Muhammad Ali

“It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.”  ~John Steinbeck

“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”  ~ John Muir

“Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flow

Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood

Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves.”  

~Bob Dylan

"Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.”  ~David R. Brower

“Love may move mountains, but it’s even more amazing when it stirs your heart to do the same.” ~Robert Clancy

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”  ~Edward Abbey

"Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain. But at the peak, we all gaze at the single bright moon." ~Ikkyu

"May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits." ~Harley King

“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.” ~Samuel Butler

 "Most works of mountain literature are written by men, and most of them focus on the goal of the summit.” ~Robert Macfarlane

“Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular” ~Marguerite Blessington

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”  ~Anatoli Boukreev

"Mountains do not rise without earthquakes." ~Katherine MacKenett

"Mountains know secrets we need to learn." ~Tyler Knott

"My home is in the mountains! My cradle stood high up there, where the Edelweiss blooms." ~ Heia in the Mountains (André Rieu)

"Never measure the height of the mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was." ~Dag Hammarskjöld

"No one can choose your mountain or tell you when you climb. It's yours alone to challenge. At your own pace and time." ~from Vlley Vet

“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” ~Anon

“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.” ~John Muir

"She maybe quiet, but she's a warrior and her prayers can move mountains." ~Native Americans

"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen" ~John Muir

"Survivors don't always flaunt their wings, but when they do, you better believe them to be strong. They've carried a weight of mountains with no one to help." ~Veronika Jensen 

"Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else's survival guide." ~Morgan Harper Nichols

"The distant mountains are reflected in the eye of the dragonfly." ~Kobayashi lssa

“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”  ~Georges Simenon

"The mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow." ~John Muir

"The mountains are calling and I must go." ~John Muir

"The mountains are our brothers, the rivers our sisters, the air our breath, the land our kin. And we are all connected." ~Chief Seattle

"The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears." ~Rick Bass

“The sides of the mountain sustain life, not the peak. This is where things grow, experience is gained, and technologies are mastered. The importance of the peak lies only in the fact that it defines the sides.” ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire

"The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far." ~Paulo Coelho 

"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."  ~Zhuangzi

"There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been." ~Rumi

"There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that." ~Rumi

"There is something godly about hills and mountains, something cleansing about the rain, and it is only when birds sing, does a mind rest to get ready for the work ahead." ~Hedda Tady,  May 2, 2021

“This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.” ~Shams Tabrizi

"Those who have packed far up into grizzly country know that the presence of even one grizzly on the land elevates the mountains, deepens the canyons, chills the winds, brightens the stars, darkens the forest, and quickens the pulse of all who enter it."  ~John Murray

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.” ~Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

"To achieve climbing the highest mountain in the world is sheer guts and determination!" ~George Favis

"Walked for half an hour in the garden.  A fine rain was falling, and the landscape was that of autumn.  The sky was hung with various shades of gray, and mists hovered about the distant mountains - a melancholy nature.  The leaves were falling on all sides like the last illusions of youth under the tears of irremediable grief.  A brood of chattering birds were chasing each other through the shrubberies, and playing games among the branches, like a knot of hiding schoolboys.  Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail." ~Henri Frederic Amiel 

"What riches are ours in the world of nature, from the majesty of the distant peak to the fragile beauty of a tiny flower, and all without cost to us, the beholders! No person is poor who has watched a sunrise or who keeps a mountain in his or her heart." ~Esther Baldwin York

“What wonders lie in every mountain day!” ~John Muir

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
~from "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran

"When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents, and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same. You have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, you are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday." ~Morgan Harper Nichols

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!" ~Dr. Seuss

“You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.”  ~John Muir

"You don't have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude and acceptance. You will change the world by just being a warm, kind-hearted human being." ~Anita Krizzan

"Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them." -Russel Conwell

RELATED QUOTES

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - leaves its impress upon the soul of man." ~Orison Swett Marden

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth."  ~Theodore Roosevelt

“Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.” ~John Muir

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”  ~Edward Abbey

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