Quotes and proverbs about mountains and hills.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that god damn mountain.
Jack KerouacBehind every mountain lies a valley.
Beneath these green mountains where spring rules the year, the irbarbutus and loquat in season appear, and feasting on lychee, 300 a day, I shouldn't mind staying eternally here.
Su ShihClimb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John MuirDistant hills look green.
Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.
Faith will move mountains.
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
J.R.R. TolkienTo dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
Part of a song by the dwarves
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John MuirI am Thorin son of Thrain son of Thror King under the Mountain!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 10 - A Warm Welcome
Quoted: Thorin
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David AttenboroughIf the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.
You have to adjust to the situation.In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.
It's always further than it looks. It's always taller than it looks. And it's always harder than it looks.
(unknown author)Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward AbbeyMountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
Anatoli BoukreevMountains are used to snow.
My best days are spent with mountains and trees.
MinkukelMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous HuxleyNo matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.
Not far away were dreary hills, rising higher and higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been built by wicked people.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Near the trolls.
Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.
Sit atop the mountain and watch the tigers fight.
The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
Shall come into his own!
J.R.R. TolkienThe King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
Shall come into his own!
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 10 - A Warm Welcome
Part of a song about the King under the Mountain.
The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.
Daniel WallockThere are many paths up the mountain, but the view from the top is always the same.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
John MuirToday is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So ... get on your way.
Dr. Seuss