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“When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt.”

Art War Moving Fire Wind Mountain Standing Clouds Forests Firm March Art Of War Majestic Unfathomable Stand Firm Campaigning Thunderbolts Raiding

Author:Sun Tzu

“Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.”

Ifs World Heaven Silence Plans Changed Wind Wall Mountain Rain Rivers Stones Silent West South Calm Clouds Bridges Lakes Tall Goddess Sail Snakes Chasms Tortoises Moats Stone Walls

Book:The Poems of Mao Zedong

Source: The Poems of Mao Zedong

“Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.”

“We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.”

Want Made Light Night Certain Stars Dark Darkness Air Sea Color Wind Fine Band Mountain Cat Blue Clouds Sunset Strokes Purple Polished Bronze Dainty Dark Blue

Book:Following the Equator:

Source: Following the Equator:

“Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.”

“Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.”

Book Hands Eye Stars Nature Cities College Genius Mountain Elements Ocean Rivers Seasons Clouds Contact Horizon Crave Second Hand Clouds And Stars

Book:Tablets

Source: Tablets

“In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.”

Children Beautiful Form Nature Laughing Sky Rocks Flower Mountain Fairs Blue Clouds Lovely Golden Dawn Diamond Rainbow Hung Simplest Purple Dew Boundless Maidens Admiring Rosy Woodland

Book:The Way to Life: Sermons

Source: The Way to Life: Sermons

“When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

Way Long Able Remember Night Universe Evil Force Realizing Justice Dark Moral Power Creative Tomorrow Thousand Mountain Despair Lows Clouds Yesterday Midnight Arcs Dreary Hovering

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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