Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Mountain Greenery http://www.lorenzhart.org/greenarysng.htm (1935)
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.”
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
Source: 1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951, p. 231
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
"In the Sierra Forests", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 3 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated July 1875, published 3 August 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 79
1870s
Variant: Going to the woods is going home.
Grandma Moses (1860–1961) American artist
As quoted in Tampa Bay Magazine (January/February 2008), p. 205
Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist
Sec. 51; often paraphrased as: "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything".
The Antichrist (1888)