Beacons Quote by John Muir

The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of…

— Bruce Barcott

“This is how I think of Mount Rainier, not as an icon of permanence but as a source of relentless change, a mountain forever…

— Bruce Barcott

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.…

— John Muir

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mt. Rainier] emotionally and psychically,…

— Bruce Barcott

We tend to seek the mountain tops in life but it's in the valleys where God makes the flowers bloom!

— Anonymous

“of uniformed and plain-clothed officers, and a tent, and the allure was too much to resist. Even the tourists were ignoring two of the…

— Robert Dugoni

“Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little…

— Rick Riordan

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

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

— Gaston Rebuffat

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine…

— John Muir

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays…

— Robert Browning