Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… — Edgar Allan Poe
To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near,… — John Muir
The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the… — Robert Toombs
Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we… — John Muir
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen — John Muir
I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains. — John Muir
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. — Carter G. Woodson
Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the… — John Muir
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. — John Muir
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to… — John Muir
As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the… — Lincoln Hall
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . . — John Muir
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming… — John Muir
The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir
Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek. — John Muir
Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains? — John Muir
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning… — John Muir
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely… — Bayard Taylor
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his… — Bayard Taylor
I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains. — John Muir
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a… — Douglas Hyde
Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the… — Stuart Wilde
They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended for.… — Frederick Lenz
The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit… — Frederick Lenz
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of… — Joseph Conrad

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