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“The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.”

People World Earth Cities Sea Mountain Empty Forests Desert Nothingness Unchangeable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.”

World Certain Waiting Sea Ready Listening Mountain Empty Woods

Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.”

Doe Ends Beautiful Forever Flower Mountain Ocean Empty Clouds Contrary Wander Streams Sand Mentality Depressing Washing Surf Canyons Empty Life Mountain Streams

Book:The Way of Zen

Source: The Way of Zen

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Inspirational Feels Earth Spirit Nature Friendship Community Cities Mountain Garden Rivers Empty Friendship Garden

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.”

Ifs Soul Mountain Models Empty Blind Medicine Paint Painter Observation Impulse Encounters Bottles Shelves

Book:Adventure of painting

Source: Adventure of painting

“I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.”

Firsts Made Ends Eye Born Space Poor Impossible Rocks Huge Hair Horror Mountain Sitting Empty Flesh Gentle Remembered Cute Climbing Straws Empty Space Ledges

Author:Jack Kerouac

“I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.”

Ifs Knows Persons Long Bigs Dies Sky Mountain Empty Climbs Climbing Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Backpacking

Book:A Killing Frost

Source: A Killing Frost

“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.”

“I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.”

“On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.”

Knows Seems Universe Sides Space Too Much Mountain Mass Empty Clouds

Book:To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in

Source: To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in

“You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.”