Best land & mountain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.”

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.”

“I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”

Life Firsts Saws Tree Land Mountain Rivers Ships Flats Site Orange Castles Rockets Disneyland Acres Grove Walnuts Walnut Trees

Author:Walt Disney

“Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.”

People Land Ought Holy Mountain Hiking Pilgrimage Hiking In The Mountains Holy Land

Author:John Muir

“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."”

“I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.”

Looks Country Eye Land Mountain Blue Expected Lovely Ruins Dull Disappointed Valleys Entering Sweetest Scenery Bohemia

Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”

Desire Purpose Moral Practice Land Tears Development Safe Mountain Creating Function Treasure Destructive Flats Coal Removal Mining Bowels Burglars

Author:Joseph Conrad

“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”

Men I Can America My Own Existence Land Mountain Appreciate Native Native Land

Author:Martin Delany

“Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.”

Knows Giving Mind Believe Wells Art Whole Age Song Difficult Air Land Fool Mountain Art Is Tasks Gold Army Heavy Rhythm Firm Troops Believe In Me Crowns No Fear Foe Have No Fear

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.”

Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891

“England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.”

Wells May Water Freedom Steps Land Proud Mountain England Firm Magnificent Scotland Couches Switzerland Dams Fetters Nile

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.”

Ifs Men Believe Made Night Father Impossible Sea Land Mankind Mountain Wave Beast Hiding Surprising Sunlight Miraculous Dolphins Zeus Pastures Olympian Salty

Author:Archilochus

“It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.”

States Energy Consciousness Creative One Thing Land Return Mountain Illusion Flow All Things Valleys Unified States Of Consciousness Creative Energy All State

Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.”

Religion Land Mountain Rivers India Errors Ancient Golden Chains Sand Fountain Sunny Strands Icy Greenland

Book:The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.”

Way Long Ends Light Young Nature Sun Fire Five Land Months Mountain Spring Red Mark Blue Plant California Fallen Brown Gray Yellow Stem Coast Fog June Oaks Robes Blooming Haze Mustard

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.”

Source: The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).

“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.”

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

“Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.”

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.”

Lying Our Lives Land Source Mountain Essentials Rivers Absolutes Plant Desert Wildlife Bedrock

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.”

Sea Land Mountain Storm Miles Lifts Islands Wizards

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.”

“Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!”

Men Want Should Risk Land Rocks Dangerous Mountain Climbing Salt Goats Steep High Risk

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.”

“If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land.”

Ifs World Stories Dream Would Be Land Drink Mountain Streams Divided Pool

Author:John Lennon

“The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.”

Looks May Soul Journey Land Movement Mountain Tales Forests Fairy Fairy Tale Inward Castles

Author:Terri Windling

“My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."”

“For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.”

Men Lasts Found Water White Land Quiet Mountain Gold White Man Short Time Winding Down

Author:Chief Joseph

“Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches.”

Inspirational Dream Eye Fear Plans Land Mountain Approach Stones Ships Compromise Beast Deceiving Stepping Stones Promised Land Never Compromise

Book:Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

Source: Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

“I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."”

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