Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them… — Mark Lawrence
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and… — Margaret Mead
Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star… — John Robbins
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights.… — Anatoli Boukreev
Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings.… — Anatoli Boukreev
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 view… — Anatoli Boukreev
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro,… — Subcomandante Marcos
There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with… — Johannes V. Jensen
Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the… — Unknown Author
It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no… — Ruskin Bond
Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of… — Unknown Author
Part of the magic of the experience lay in the sheer beauty of the setting: the breathtaking sight of the high mountains, the sweep of… — Joseph Jaworski
For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks… — Jim Wickwire
If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them. — Stacy Allison
The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark… — Laurie Lee
I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs — Friedrich Nietzsche
For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were… — Rabindranath Tagore
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with… — Loren Eiseley
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget… — Guru Nanak
Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing… — Bob Ross
You know, the mountains are full of dangers, and they swallow you up. But mostly, they give. — Doug Coombs
The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the… — James Ramsey Ullman
I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore… — James Kavanaugh

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