Division Quote by Bruce Barcott

“This is how I think of Mount Rainier, not as an icon of permanence but as a source of relentless change, a mountain forever…

— Bruce Barcott

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mt. Rainier] emotionally and psychically,…

— Bruce Barcott

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

“Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mountain then lives inside our bones, inside our heart-drum. It…

— Joan Halifax

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the…

— Berthold Auerbach

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the…

— Lincoln Hall

“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

“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 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

There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it…

— Bell Hooks

“All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist…

— Michael Kennedy

“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