Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

When the belly is empty the body becomes spirit and when it is full the spirit becomes body.

Keep belly lightly loaded if mind would wisdom see For bodies crammed to bursting make empty souls to be.

The rose and the thorn and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven it remains valueless.

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.