Feels Quote by Bayard Taylor

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the…

— Anonymous

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after…

— Richard Nelson

“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

“The mountain is awake, with utterance Of flame and burning rock and thunderous sound- Abode of the ancestral spirits who dance In blissful fire!…

— James McAuley

The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic,…

— Rose Macaulay

“Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and strengthened, they are symbols of the sacred center. Many…

— Joan Halifax

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as…

— Victor Hugo

“The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and…

— Lama Govinda

“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of earth and…

— Peter Matthiessen

“Contemplate for a moment hiking up a wild and rugged mountain. The mountain itself is a challenge, as well as the experience of beauty…

— Steve Sanchez

“The great shapes of the hills, embrowned and glowing with the molten hues of autumn, are all about him: the towering summits, wild and…

— Thomas Wolfe

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