Quote by Steven LaVey

“Above ground and breathing, no dirt in my face!”

— Barclay Berg

“Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale…

— Ellen Meloy

“Sometimes, I get pulled under the current, a wave of anxious thought flooding my mind. But, somehow, you help me find the surface. I…

— Liz Newman

“It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words…

— Suzanne Collins

“The air is fresher here. Rock walls rise on either side of me. They must be the bowl of the volcano.”

— Gail Carson Levine

“I could hear them whispering how Granddad had gone to a better place. They could think so and go to hell; I didn’t believe…

— Larry McMurtry

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. I am scrap wood thrown in your fire, and quickly…

— Rumi

“I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.”

— Alice Sebold

“But again, it’s as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears and past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

— Lauren Oliver

“When mountains move, the earth shakes. When you stand as close as we have to real-life miracles, you will get roughed up. Mountains are…

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

“I'm a fan of the volcanic imagination. It bubbles and boils below the surface; it rumbles. When it erupts, continents are born.”

— C. Alexander London

“Nothing lives long but the mountains and the earth. All the rest is air.”

— Chris Galford