Mountain Quotes
2288 quotes by 1426 authors
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Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
— Duane Chapman
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For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the…
— Walter Bonatti
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The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not…
— Walter Bonatti
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In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee),…
— Rory Stewart
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second…
— Alexander Pope
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A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don't compromise - care about the details, the fit and…
— Kevin Rose
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Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of…
— Paulo Coelho
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The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.
— Yi Sun-sin
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The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains…
— Fred Bear
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Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe…
— David M. Raup
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If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone
— Jim Whittaker
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As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is…
— John O'Donohue
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me…
— Tamae Watanabe
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Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted…
— George Bird Grinnell
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It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed…
— Andrew McMahon
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The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting,…
— T. R. Fehrenbach
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We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.
— Todd Skinner
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When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is…
— Roz Savage
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New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
— Simeon Strunsky
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