“The nation is ruined, but mountains and rivers remain.”
"Spring View" (trans. Gary Snyder), written in 755.
Variant translation (by David Hinton): The nation falls into ruins; rivers and mountains continue.
Original
國破山河在。
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Du Fu 13
Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 712–770Related quotes
“Dicko: The mountain was too high, the river too deep. Cabaret.”
Australian Idol, Final Performances, Final 5
"From Fort Independence to Yosemite", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 6 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated September 1875, published 15 September 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 113
1870s
“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
“Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright
On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.”
Come, wander with me, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Canto III, stanza 16 (Coronach, stanza 3).
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
IIII.37, The Arrow. p. 54
1921 - 1930, Pedagogical Sketch Book, (1925)
“See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.”
Section 2, member 4, subsection 7.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 10