Guides Quote by Ellsworth Huntington

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose…

— John Muir

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

— Sinclair Lewis

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

— Jose Marti

“The exodus across the plains in the fifteen years before the Civil War, when more than 400,000 pioneers made the trek between the frontier…

— Rinker Buck

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

— John Ruskin

“Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains.”

— Thomas D. Isern

“To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after…

— Robert M. Pirsig

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.

— Stuart Briscoe