Quote by Jon Krakauer

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing…

— Jon Krakauer

“The hillsides and Alps looked as if they'd been sculpted and freshly seeded. Nothing appeared to be placed at random. The world is out…

— Scott Haas

“As in dark forests, measureless along the crests of hills, a conflagration soars, and the bright bed of fire glows for miles, now fiery…

— Homer

“We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was hard to…

— Stephen Crane

“What was the human world like in the eyes of the mountains? Perhaps just something they saw on a leisurely afternoon. First, a few…

— Liu Cixin

“You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air…

— Annie Proulx

“Hence the dazzling mountain scene that takes our breath away should not provoke us to try to seize and freeze the moment, but to…

— Daniel J. Treier

“Our world is full of amazing phenomena: a stunningly rapturous sunrise, a night sky spangled with stardust, the fiery beauty of a volcanic lava…

— George Takei

“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the…

— Orison Swett Marden

“And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another's arms, and dream…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“...the night is suddenly vaster, colder, clearer. All the stars zing; the mountains glitter; towns and villages gather like bright mould in the valley-seams…

— Margo Lanagan