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"Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert."
"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!"
"I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them."
"There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley."
"We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves."
"God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it."
"Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken."
"I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries."
"Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks."
"Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain"
"The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you."
"He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills."
"The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks."
"We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain."
"A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain."
"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us"
"Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream."
"I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway."
"Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"
"At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain."
