“The nation is ruined, but mountains and rivers remain.”
Du Fu (712–770) Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
"Spring View" (trans. Gary Snyder), written in 755.
Variant translation (by David Hinton): The nation falls into ruins; rivers and mountains continue.
“There (Kaschau) the mountains stare down through our heads until we die.”
Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel
Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 55
“We bow only to the highest mountain.”
Witi Ihimaera (1944) New Zealand writer
The Rope of Man, epilogue, ISBN 0790008947.
Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch
Book Two, Part I “In the Wilderness”, Chapter 2 (p. 234)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
"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
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“Men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
As quoted in The Great Illusion, 1900-1914, Oron J. Hale, Harper & Row (1971) p. 109
Undated
“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
Georges Braque (1882–1963) French painter and sculptor
[Braque refers to their common years in Paris, c. 1907 - 1912]
Source: posthumous quotes, Braque', (1968), p. 10
