mountains3 quotes

“There is a hidden path for you also that remains…behind the marketplace, it begins in the thickets of small woods…it winds up many steep paths toward the high mountain air, to life in the ascent, uncorrupted by the miasma of the yeast man and the toilets in the river valleys…the life of Jason’s Argo can be reclaimed…and by some few in the modern world, it has been…”

“What Mount Aetna was to Empedocles—is there something like that to you? Is there something like that at all anymore?”

“If he would express the sight in colour the artist would use soft pastels for the plains to the west and south, harsh black-purple for the cliffs to the north and east. To express it in music the conductor would bring out the soul of the strings for the west and south, and force the brass to explode and the percussion to thunder for the north and east. To put it in words the poet would create a sigh for the west and south and a hostile fatalism for the north and east. To report on it technically the geologist would describe rolling, grass-covered savannas to the west and south, ending abruptly in two gigantic rock table-moun-tains to the north and east.”