Beauty Quote by Earl Hamner, Jr

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…

— Lincoln Hall

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

— Paul G. Stoltz

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the…

— Anatoli Boukreev

“What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible character to…

— F. Sionil José

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get…

— Robert Genn

“Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now…

— Bruce Barcott

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater…

— Doug Scott

I'm one of those people who always needs a mountain to climb. When I get up a mountain as far as I think I'm…

— Polly Bergen

For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest…

— Benton MacKaye

Lord, we don't need another mountain.

— Jackie DeShannon

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

— Jim Whittaker

“The mountains you see serve as a reminder that life will not always be easy, but for you to make things easy, you must…

— Gift Gugu Mona