"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way."
- Dr. Seuss -
- Dr. Seuss -
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
- John Muir -
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
- e.e. cummings-
"The mountains will always be there, the trick is to make sure you are too."
- Hervey Voge -
"Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain."
- Irish Saying -
"molehills is what we got in kentucky. ain't no mountains. dang ma, washin'ton they's got dem real McCoy."
- Ben Taylor ... who done traveled all the way here from Kentucky -
- Ben Taylor ... who done traveled all the way here from Kentucky -
"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."
"I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!"
- William Blake -
14 comments:
10 blogosphere points to the commenter who leaves the best mountain quote. let the games begin.
(BT in the lead with 11)
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-Jack London, White Fang
every man, a mountain. every woman, a tranquil stream. he invites her peace. she reflects his dreams.
-timothy hoover
pg. 91, the mountain monologues
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
If you don't let go, you can't fall off! - Jerry Moffat
To qualify for mountain rescue work, you have to pass our test. The doctor holds a flashlight to your ear. If he can see light coming out the other one, you qualify. - Willi Pfisterer
“I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
The lowpoint of my life was googling "Mountain quotes" and spending a half hour mining hundreds of quotes for the chosen ones above ... If I don't get 10 blogosphere points for spending a half hour searching for those quotes I promise on my life I will never read this blog again ...
At the conquest of a Colorado 14er you obtain a perfect view of your soul. - DSW
"Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness -- a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild."
Jack London, White Fang
"That wonderful world of high mountains, dazzling in their rock and ice, acts as a catalyst. It suggests the infinite but it is not the infinite. The heights only give us what we ourselves bring them."
Lucien Devies (French mountaineer)
"In the midst of such beauty, pierced with its rays, one's body is all one tingling palate. Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing."
John Muir
"The mountains are calling and I must go."
John Muir
PS - The following quotes should probably be disqualified b/c they are from the Bible, and that's just an unfair advantage:
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore.
Psalm 125:2
Let the rivers clap their hands, Let the mountains sing together for joy
Psalm 98:8
I am glad to wholeheartedly affirm that, after finishing up a wonderful 35+ hour trip with the two of you, dreams truly do come true.
WCH
Best mountain quote is already on your wall:
"molehills is what we got in kentucky. ain't no mountains. dang ma, washin'ton they's got dem real McCoy." - Ben Taylor ... who done traveled all the way here from Kentucky
As a resident of Kentuckiana, the only amendment I would make is "caintuck" instead of "Kentucky"...but it's good. I felt like I was home.
hey, thanks for waiting until the last day in Washington to let me know the blog address.
I keep checking back just in case, but...
I give up.
I must be a masochist, because I checked your blog yet again, only to be crushed...yet again.
I can't believe I forgot you had a blog. That is kinda depressing...but not as depressing as Jason sending the wrong girl home...I kept thinking, jason, run after her...go get her...
you know, you felt it too!
Yes it is good to know we have the same taste in women! Good thing we are not men :)
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