This file includes Hills, Mountains, and Valleys and Canyons.
hills
Page Toppers
- Big Hill
- Folks Who Live on a Hill
- Gathering Flowers From the Hillside
- God Walks These Hills With Me
- Headed for the Hills
- High on a Hilltop
- House on a Hill
- Over the Hill and Far Away
- Up This Hill and Down
Quotes
- As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. (Stephen Graham)
- Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. (Rupert Brooke)
- But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills. (Richard Monckton Milnes)
- The hills, rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. (William Cullen Bryant)
- Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. (Phillips Brooks)
- When spring is dancing among the hills, one should not stay in a little dark corner.
Music in the Hills
(Aldo Leopold)
This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all . . . On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen . . . and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it--a vast pulsing harmony--its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.
Every Child Should Know a Hill
(Edna Casler Joll)
Every child should know a hill,
And the clean joy of running down its long slope
With the wind in his hair.
He should know a tree . . .
The comfort of its cool lap of shade,
And the supple strength of its arms
Balancing him between earth and sky
So he is a creature of both.
He should know bits of singing water . . .
The strange mysteries of its depths,
And the long sweet grasses that border it.
Every child should know some scrap
Of uninterrupted sky, to shout against;
And have one star, dependable and bright,
For wishing on.
How to Tell the Top of a Hill
(John Ciardi)
The top of a hill
Is not until
The bottom is below.
And you have to stop
When you reach the top
For there's not more UP to go.
To make it plain
Let me explain:
The one most reason why
You have to stop
When you reach the top--is:
The next step up is sky.
Songs about Hills
- Across the Hills - Leon Rosselson (1968)
- And the Hills - The Marshall Tucker Band (1990)
- Back Bay Hill - Ed McCurdy (1956)
- Beyond the Next Hill - O.C. Smith (1966)
- Big Hill - The McLain Family Band (1986)
- Black Hills Dreamer - Buddy Red Bow (1995)
- Black Hills of Dakota - Doris Day (1954)
- Blue Missouri Hills - Chuck Suchy (1999)
- Blueberry Hill - Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (1956)
- Cabin on the Hill - The Roland White Band (2002)
- Call of the Faraway Hills, The - Ken Curtis (1953)
- Cedar Hill - David 'Dawg' Grisman (1981)
- Downhill Drag - Chet Atkins (1954)
- Echoes from the Hills - Sons of the Pioneers (1951)
- Emerald Hill - Michael Lee Hill (2007)
- Emerald Hills - Jude Roberts (2008)
- Everlasting Hills of Oklahoma - Sons of the Pioneers (1947)
- Flint Hill Special - M. Seeger, J. Hartford and D. Grisman (1999)
- Flint Hills of Kansas - Bell and Shore (1989)
- Fool on the Hill, The - Sky (1984)
- Folks Who Live on a Hill - Gloria Lynne (1965)
- Gatherin' Flowers from the Hillside - Earl Taylor (1967)
- Gathering Flowers From the Hill - The Delmore Brothers (1940)
- Gathering Flowers From the Hillside - Hylo Brown (1959)
- God Walks These Hills With Me - Tommy Sosebee (1950)
- Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia - Emmylou Harris (1979)
- Headed for the Hills - Jim Lauderdale (2004)
- Heartbreak Hill - Emmylou Harris (1989)
- High on a Hill - Nicky Hopkins (1968)
- High on a Windy Hill - Leo Diamond (1960)
- High on the Hill - Martha Carson (1960)
- Hill Country Rain - Jerry Jeff Walker (1972)
- Hill Country Waltz - The Pure Country Band (1995)
- Hills - Michael Johnson (1964)
- Hills of East Tennessee - Lonzo and Oscar (1960)
- Hills of Georgia - Hylo Brown (1962)
- Hills of Home - Hazel Dickens (1983)
- Hills of Mexico - Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs (2007)
- Hills of Old Vermont - Rik Palieri (2007)
- Hills of Oregon - Doug McArthur and Jeffra Cook (1997)
- Hills of Roan County, The - Clinch Mountain Boys (1967)
- Hills of Old Montana - Sons of the Pioneers (1934)
- Hills of Old Wyomin' - Sons of the Pioneers (1936)
- Hills of South Dakota - Becky Schlegel (2008)
- Hills of Vermont - Sandy Salisbury (2003)
- Hills of West Virginia, The - Phil Ochs (1965)
- Home in the Hills - The Pinetoppers (1955)
- House on a Hill - Aaron Neville (1991)
- House on Telegraph Hill - The Heywoods (1975)
- I'd Climb the Hills and the Mountains - The Flairs (1959)
- In the Blue Hills of Virginia - The Delmore Brothers (1940)
- In the Hills of Old Kentucky - Billy Ray Cyrus (2007)
- In the Hills of Tennessee - Jimmie Rogers (1932)
- King of the Hill - David Lee Roth (1998)
- Little Poplar Log-House on the Hill - Bill Clifton (1975)
- Love in Them There Hills - The Pointer Sisters (1974)
- Jamboree in the Hills - Mayf Nutter (1978)
- Mansion on the Hill - Jimmy Sacca (1954)
- Maple on the Hill, The - Norman Blake (2005)
- Mockin' Bird Hill - Les Paul and Mary Ford (1951)
- Montana's Golden Hills - Paul Russell (1905)
- My Little Wild Rose Of the Hills - Redd Stewart (1950)
- Oklahoma Hills - Arlo Guthrie (1969)
- Old Virginia Hills - The Wolfe Brothers (2009)
- On a Hill Lone and Gray - Cary Fridley (2006)
- Over the Hill - Ruby Wells and Hawkshaw Hawkins (1952)
- Place in the Hills, A - Erik Darling (2000)
- Quiet Hills - Laurie Lewis (2004)
- Red Hills of Utah - Marty Robbins (1963)
- Spring Hill Disaster - Bill Clifton (1958)
- There's a Chill on the Hill Tonight - Jimmie Davis (1944)
- These Hills - Connie Eaton (1970)
- Those Kentucky Bluegrass Hills - Jimmy Work (1945)
- Tree on a Hill - Peter Rowan (1994)
- Up This Hill and Down - Osborne Brothers (1966)
- Walk These Hills - Russell Smith (2002)
- Way Beyond the Hills - Gloria Lynne (1959)
- West Virginia Hills - Jim Truman (2005)
- What Lies Over the Hills? - Roger Williams (1960)
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MOUNTAINS
Page Toppers
- Communing with Nature
- Foggy Mountain Top
- For Purple Mountain Majesties
- Go Tell it On the Mountain
- Hazy Mountains
- High on the Mountain
- Living the High Life
- Magnificent Mountains
- Mist-Covered Mountains
- Mountain Climber
- Mountain in the Mist
- Mountain Memories
- One More Mountain to Climb
- Over the Mountain
- The Peak of Perfection
- Scaling New Heights
- Sunday Morning in the Mountains
- They'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
- Vacation in the Mountains
- You Call That a Mountain?
Quotes
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers, the winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves. (John Muir)
- Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
- Going to the mountains is going home.
- The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. (E. R. Eddison)
- In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak; but for that you must have long legs. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- It's not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves. (Edmund Hillary)
- Keep close to nature's heart...and break clear away once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. (John Muir)
- Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, and of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains. (John Muir)
- Mountains are the beginning and end of all natural scenery. John Ruskin
- My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going. (Aldous Huxley)
- Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. (Sir Edmund Hillary)
- Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. (Henry Ward Beecher)
- Some of them seemed possessed of an incorrigible inner urge simply to explore, to use whatever excuse was necessary to travel into country where no one else had been, to see where the rivers went, to find a pass through a mountain range that no one else had crossed. (David Thompson)
- Tis distance lends enchantment to the view
And robes the mountain in its azure hue. (Thomas Campbell)
- A volcano is just a mountain with hiccups.
- You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. (Arlene Blum)
Rough Country
(Dana Gioia)
Give me a landscape made of obstacles,
of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,
where the low-running streams are quick to flood
the grassy fields and bottom lands.
A place no engineers can master--where the roads
must twist like tendrils up the mountainside
on narrow cliffs where boulders block the way.
Where tall black trunks of lightning-scalded pine
push through the tangled woods to make a roost
for hawks and swarming crows.
And sharp inclines
where twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush,
scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly
to find an unexpected waterfall,
not half a mile from the nearest road,
a spot so hard to reach that no one comes.
A hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies
and nesting jays, a sign that there is still
one piece of property that won't be owned.
They Speak to Me
(Chief Dan George)
The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.
The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
speaks to me.
The faintness of the stars,
the trail of the sun,
the strength of fire,
and the life that never goes away,
they speak to me.
And my heart soars.
Songs about Mountains
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross (1970)
- Ballad of Shadow Mountain - Vaughn Monroe (1963)
- Bearcat Mountain Gal - Texas Jim Lewis (1941)
- Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock (1972)
- Black Mountain Rag - Tommy Jackson (1955)
- Blue Mountain Memories - Larry Sparks (1996)
- Blue Mountain Waltz - Billy Walker and Jeanette Hicks (1955)
- Blue Ridge Mountain Blues - The Blue Ridge Rangers (1973)
- Blue Ridge Mountain Home - The Barrier Brothers (1957)
- Blue Ridge Mountain Sky - The Marshall Tucker Band (1974)
- Blue Ridge Mountains Turnin' Green - Charley Pride (1973)
- Bluebirds Over the Mountain - Beach Boys (1968)
- Cabin on a Mountain - Country Gazette (1986)
- Carolina Mountain Home - Ricky Skaggs (1999)
- Carry Me Back to the Mountains - Mac Wiseman (2001)
- Climb Every Mountain - The Hesitations (1968)
- Climb Up Sunshine Mountain - Greenwood County Singers (1964)
- Clinch Mountain Back-Step - Alan Munde (1982)
- Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase - The Wayfarers Trio (1960)
- Fire on the Mountain - The Marshall Tucker Band (1975)
- Fog Rising on the Mountain - Tennessee Ramblers (1956)
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Earl Scruggs Revue (1972)
- Foggy Mountain Chimes - Here Today (1982)
- Foggy Mountain Top - Earl Taylor (1959)
- Ghost Mountain Riders - Larry Hosford (2000)
- Gonna Build a Mountain - Julius La Rosa (1964)
- Hazy Mountains - Dale Evans and Roy Rogers (1952)
- High on the Mountain - The Del McCoury Band (1992)
- I Don't Want Another Mountain to Climb - Bobby 'Blue' Bland (1973)
- I'd Climb the Hills and the Mountains - The Flairs (1959)
- I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall - Merle Haggard (1978)
- I'm the Girl on Wolverton Mountain - Jo Ann Campbell (1962)
- Left My Gal in the Mountains - Ed Badeaux (1958)
- Lookout Mountain - Chuck Miller (1955)
- Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain - Frankie Laine (1969)
- Love Can Move Mountains - Jimmy Heap and the Melody Masters (1955)
- Magenta Mountain - Les Baxter (1993)
- Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow (1975)
- Maroon Mountains - Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan (2007)
- Mist-Covered Mountains - Laura Cortese (2004)
- Misty Mountain - Denny Laine (1996)
- Morning Side of the Mountain, The - Donny and Marie (1974)
- Mountain - Blue October (1993)
- Mountain, The - Del McCoury Band (1999)
- Mountain Climber, The - Burt Hoffman (1956)
- Mountain Eyes - Mel McDaniel (1983)
- Mountain Flower - Lonesome Pine Fiddlers (1962)
- Mountain Greenery - Mel Torme (1956)
- Mountain High, Valley Low - Eartha Kitt (1953)
- Mountain in the Mist - Craig Chaquico (1993)
- Mountain Laurel - The Bailey Brothers (1975)
- Mountain Lullaby - Larry Groce (1991)
- Mountain Morning - Larry Knechtel (1979)
- Mountain Music - Alabama (1981)
- Mountain Song - Pinmonkey (2006)
- Mountain's High, The - Dick and Dee Dee (1961)
- Mountains - Lonestar (2006)
- Mountains and Maryann - Gordon Lightfoot (1968)
- Mountains and Memories - Charlie Waller (1995)
- Mountains of Mexico - Jerry Jeff Walker (1979)
- Move That Mountain - The Statesmen Quartet (1954)
- Moving Mountains - Justin Hayward (1985)
- My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy - Dolly Parton (1969)
- My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains - George Shuffler (2000)
- My Ozark Mountain Home - Big Medicine (2002)
- My Smokey Mountain Gal - The Delmore Brothers (1936)
- My Tennessee Mountain Home - Buck Graves (1974)
- Old Man from the Mountains - Merle Haggard (1974)
- Old Man of the Mountain - Bill Laswell (1999)
- On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers and Terry Gilkyson (1951)
- One More Mountain - Samantha Jones (1971)
- One More Mountain to Climb - Ronnie Dove (1967)
- Oregon Mountains - Woody Simmons (1977)
- Over the Mountain - Ronnie Rice (1961)
- Over the Mountain, Across the Sea - Johnnie and Joe (1957)
- Ozark Mountain Jubilee - Oak Ridge Boys (1983)
- Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries - LaWanda Lindsey (1970)
- Queen of the Poconos - Dick Thomas (1949)
- Raining on the Mountain - The Delmore Brothers (1940)
- Red Mountain Wine - Gib Guilbeau (2003)
- Red Top Mountain - Fox Brothers (1997)
- River Deep, Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner (1971)
- Rocky Mountain Belle - Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1959)
- Rocky Mountain High - John Denver (1973)
- Rocky Mountain Lullaby - Tommy Tucker Orchestra (1946)
- Rocky Mountain Moon - Bonnie Guitar (1958)
- Rocky Mountain Music - Eddie Rabbitt (1976)
- Rocky Mountain Rose - Snooky Lanson (1956)
- Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh (1973)
- Rolling Down a Mountainside - Main Ingredient (1975)
- Rose in the Mountain - Mike Seeger (1993)
- Round about the Mountain - The Kingston Trio (1959)
- Shine on Rocky Mountain Moonlight - Judy Coder (2000)
- Smokey Mountain Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford (1949)
- Smokey Mountain Moon - Jimmy Work (1949)
- Smoky Mountain Memories - Mel Street (1975)
- Smoky Mountain Rain - Ronnie Milsap (1980)
- Son of a Mountain Man - Harley Allen (2001)
- Springtime in the Blue Ridge Mountains - Lester McFarland (1932)
- Springtime in the Rockies - Don Edwards (1992)
- Sunday Morning in the Mountains - Jim Post (1973)
- Sunny Side of the Mountain - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1971)
- Sweet Little Mountain Bird - Ray Charles Singers (1964)
- Tell it on the Mountain - Peter, Paul, and Mary (1964)
- Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase - Norman and Nancy Blake (1986)
- There is a Mountain - Donovan (1967)
- Til the Mountains Disappear - Paul Overstreet (1991)
- Vacation in the Mountains - Herbie Cox (1957)
- Way Out on the Mountain - Ola Belle Reed (1978)
- We're Gonna Stand up on the Mountain - Canadian Sweethearts (1965)
- When it's Springtime in the Rockies - Moe Bandy (1982)
- When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain - Slim Whitman (1977)
- Where the Mountains Meet the Moon - The King Sisters (1941)
- Where the Rocky Mountains Touch the Morning Sun - Van Warmer (1988)
- Wild Mountain Rose - Les Taylor (1998)
- Wild Mountain Thyme - Buddy Emmons (1976)
- Wild Rose of the Mountain - David Schnaufer (1999)
- Wild Rose of the Mountains - John McCutcheon (1982)
- Windy Mountain - Lonesome Pine Fiddlers (1962)
- Windy Mountains - Windy Mountain (2000)
- Wolverton Mountain - Claude King (1962)
- Wreck on the Mountain Road - New Deal String Band (1969)
- You Call That a Mountain - Jeff Wood (1997)
- You Don't Have to Move the Mountain - Hot Rize (1987)
- You Don't Need to Move a Mountain - Jeanne Pruett (1974)
- You Gave Me a Mountain - Johnny Bush (1969)
- You Were a Mountain - Smokin' Armadillos (2003)
- You've Got to Move Two Mountains - Dave Peel (1971)
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ValleyS and CanyonS
Quotes
- I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. (John McCain)
- Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. (G.K. Chesterton)
- Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
- The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. (John Wesley Powell)
- Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. (Ansel Adams)
Songs about Valleys and Canyons
- Blue Valley Waltz - Jana Jae (2007)
- Canyon Prayer - Jessi Alexander (2005)
- Cold Water Canyon - Dory Previn (1974)
- Cottonwood Canyon - Brent Rowan (2001)
- Diablo Canyon - The Outlaws (1994)
- Down in the Valley - Otis Redding (1965)
- Dream Valley - Sammy Kaye Orchestra (1941)
- Girl from the Canyon - Jonathan Edwards (1977)
- Grand Canyon - Susan Ashton (1992)
- In the Valley of My Dreams - Zeke Clements (1949)
- Ladies of the Canyon - Joni Mitchell (1970)
- Last Train from Poor Valley - Norman Blake (1992)
- Laurel Canyon - Jackie DeShannon (1968)
- Little Green Valley, The - Elana James (2007)
- Little Old Church in the Valley, The - Rex Allen (1959)
- Lonesome Valley - Jon Dee Graham (2004)
- Lonesome Valley Sally - Ray and Ina Patterson (1966)
- Lowest Valley, The - The Isaacs (1996)
- Misty Valley - Frank Chacksfield (1955)
- Mountain High, Valley Low - Eartha Kitt (1953)
- Peace in the Valley - Red Foley (1951)
- Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees (1967)
- Red River Valley - Judy Coder (2003)
- Riding Down the Canyon - Judy Coder (2000)
- River Canyon - The Crawlers (2004)
- Rose of Red River Valley - Slim Dusty (1985)
- San Fernando Valley - The King Sisters (1944)
- Sand Canyon Swing - The Flaming Guitars (1956)
- Sheepskin Valley - Claude King (1963)
- Suddenly There's a Valley - Gogi Grant (1955)
- Sun Valley Rose - Slim Dusty (1964)
- Take Me Back to Renfro Valley - Mac Wiseman (1979)
- Valley Girl - Frank Zappa (1982)
- Valley of Roses - Jerry Byrd (1962)
- Valley of Tears - Slim Whitman (1962)
- Valley Road, The - Bruce Hornsby (2000)
- When it's Lamp-Lighting Time in the Valley - Hylo Brown (1967)
- White China Canyons - Steve Fromholz (1982)
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