Climbing Quote by Petrarch

Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until…

— George Leigh Mallory

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Within those margins is Denali, a 144-square-mile mass of rock, snow, and ice that rises abruptly from a 2,000-foot plateau, soaring 18,000 feet from…

— Andy Hall

“Mount Everest is about as tall as a mountain on Earth can grow before the lower rock layers succumb to their own plasticity under…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

— Dogen

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the…

— Anonymous

“Contrary to popular belief, there are peaks higher than Mount Everest. These are the hurdles that lie within each of us. Thank you Stephen…

— Karan Godara

Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Himalayas grew against the force of Earth’s gravity because of the resilience of crustal rock. But before you get excited about Earth’s mighty…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

— Jose Marti

In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base…

— Rene Daumal

“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