Carolina Quote by Charles Frazier

“As a child I harbored a deep interest in geography. I remember that in the library of my house, immersed in my fantasies, my…

— Barbara Athanassiadis

“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

“I want to write a short story where the protagonist is a globe, and all the secondary, or “flat” characters, are all maps. It’ll…

— Jarod Kintz

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

— W. P. Kinsella

“somewhere in the mountains with two”

— Christine Conaway

“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last late into…

— Lev Grossman

“As Jack knelt in the bloody snow, he wondered if that was how a man held up his end of the bargain, by learning…

— Eowyn Ivey

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

— David Amram

“Life and the work on the mountain had left their mark. Everything about him was warped and crooked. His back seemed to be heading…

— Robert Seethaler

“Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself”

— Joan Bauer

I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been,…

— John Muir