Mountains

“Great things are done when Men & Mountains meetThis is not Done by Jostling in the Street.”

“I remember at Chamouni – in the very eyes of Mont Blanc – hearing another woman – English also – exclaim to her party – "did you ever see any thing more rural".”

“He who first met the Highlands' swelling blueAnd clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace.”

“Above me are the Alps,How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.”

“At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bowAnd robes the mountain in its azure hue.”

“Humbling huge mountains as if they were piles of litter, ... She brings about the destruction of the mountain lands from east to west.”

“Mountain, because of your elevation, because of your height, Because you did not press (your) lips in the dust.”

“Karahashi, Fumi (April 2004). "Fighting the Mountain: Some Observations on the Sumerian Myths of Inanna and Ninurta". Journal of Near Eastern Studies 63 (2): 111–8. JSTOR 422302.”

“So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar,But bind him to his native mountains more.”

“In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining: Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.”

“After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it.”

“A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.”

“Because it's there.”

“Alps on Alps in clusters swelling, The ramparts of a Godhead's dwelling!”

“A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity — and sleep finally adds to them liberty.”

“So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!”

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”

“Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repealLarge codes of fraud and woe.”

“Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height,In height and cold, the splendour of the hills?”

“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains - their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them.”

“You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.”

“What has roots as nobody sees, And yet never grows?”

“It's a round trip. Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory.”

“The Mountain is not merely something eternally sublime. It has a great historical and spiritual meaning for us … From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon on the Mount. We may truly say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.”

“When you reach the top of the mountain, keep climbing.”

“Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; With a diadem of snow.”

“Mountains interposedLike kindred drops been mingled into one.”

“To make a mountain of a mole-hill.”

“Over the hills, and over the main,Over the hills and far away.”

“Over the hills and far away.”

“Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.”

“What is the voice of strange command Over the hills and far away.”

“Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.”

“Daily with souls that cringe and plot,We Sinais climb and know it not.”

“Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.”

“Over the hills and o'er the main,Over the hills and far away.”

“I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.”

“Who digs hills because they do aspire,Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.”

“The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.”

“And o'er the hills and far away, Thro' all the world she followed him.”