Culture Quote by Lizz Wright

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

— Loretta Lynn

I grew up in the North-East so identifying with mountain people - their simplicity and honesty - comes naturally to me. I even call…

— Victor Banerjee

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

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

— Brett Dennen

Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I…

— Anatoli Boukreev

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

— Paul McCartney

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

— Reinhold Messner

I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing…

— Mark Lawrence

Mountains are cool cause they're like Mother Earth's Boobies.

— Nikhil Saluja

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to…

— Edmund Hillary

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

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

— Donald Miller