Mountain Quotes

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Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his… — Gabi Hollows
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last… — Geronimo
Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain… — Lembit Opik
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of… — Mary Hunter Austin
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt… — John Burroughs
Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains. — Link Wray
Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand… — David R. Brower
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong… — John F. Kerry
A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move. — Robert M. Hensel
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There… — Sid Lovett
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from… — Morris Kline
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. — Charles Lamb
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved… — Galen Rowell
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain.… — Galen Rowell
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in… — Galen Rowell
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes… — Berenice Abbott
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an… — Galen Rowell
When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink. — David Pleat

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