Psalm 121

"Roderick Peattie, in his classic Mountain Geography (1936), suggests several criteria for defining mountains: (1) mountains should be impressive, (2) they should enter into the imagination of the people who live within their shadow, and (3) they should have individuality...To a large extent, then, a mountain is a mountain because of the part it plays in the popular imagination."

~ M. Price, Byers, Friend, Kohler, L. Price, Mountain Geography (2013), 2-3.



"The religious influences of a physical landscape, in this instance a chain of mountains called the Appalachians that are among the oldest in the world, is a subliminal force of extraordinary power on mountain people..."

~ D. V. McCauley, Appalachian Mountain Religion, 336.