Forever Quote by Anatoli Boukreev

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our…

— Elizabeth Aston

Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I…

— Anatoli Boukreev

A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing…

— Earl Hamner, Jr

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

— Donald Miller

“What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible character to…

— F. Sionil José

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful…

— Robert MacFarlane

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get…

— Robert Genn

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

— Reinhold Messner

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but…

— Lincoln Hall

If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead…

— John Muir

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

— Richard Paul Evans