The Greeks placed their Pantheon on Mount Olympus, of which Homer sang:

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The Prophet Ezekiel placed earthly paradise on a high mountain, from which living waters flowed.

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The golden lotus that the Hindu creator Vishnu first caused to rise from the void had for its petals the summits of the Himalayas, and from its heart ran a river saturated with holiness: the sacred Ganges.

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Great monasteries—the Potala in Lhasa, the Hospice of Saint Bernard, the Cloisters of Mount Athos—are in high places.

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High places are holy places: Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai; Buddha was born in the shadow of the Himalayas.

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They make man look up and feel the nearness of the heavens.

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Mountains bespeak the silence and the eloquence of nature.