I saw the black seam of your stocking Running down the…

“The creek at night under the moon was just enough like the creek in daylight to be reassuring. There was the deadfall spruce that…

— Peter Heller

I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things…

— Sissy Spacek

“I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over…

— Scott McClanahan

The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is…

— Walter Bonatti

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

— Walter Scott

This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our…

— Bruce Barcott

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

— Laozi

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

— Peter Falk

“It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. ”

— Isabella L. Bird

“Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back.”

— Santosh Kalwar

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.”

— Heather Day Gilbert