Swiss Quote by Scott Haas

“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

“Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now…

— Bruce Barcott

Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present…

— Pliny the Elder

“The Northwestern Carpathians, in which I was raised, were a hard place, as unforgiving as the people who lived there, but the Alpine landscape…

— Andrew Krivak

“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the…

— Jon Krakauer

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the…

— Maurice Herzog

“Without mountains and valleys life would just be plain.”

— Ted Agon

“What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible character to…

— F. Sionil José

“I saw the endless steppes, which, although they appeared to be nothing but desert, were, in fact, full of life, full of creatures hidden…

— Paulo Coelho

“I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.”

— Walt Whitman