Mountain Quotes - Page 2

• Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

  Laozi

  Moving, Rivers, Tao

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

  Li Bai

  Lonely, Clouds, Bird

  Li Po, “Alone Looking At The Mountain”

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• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

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• The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.

  Dolly Parton

  Hair, Personality, Deals

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• Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.

  Najibullah Quraishi

  People, Village, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

  John Muir

  Yellowstone, Hiking, Yosemite

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.451, e-artnow

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• The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Encouraging, Wisdom, Hiking

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• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Hiking, Answers

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• What are men to rocks and mountains?

  Jane Austen

  Men, Rocks, Mrs Bennet

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.27.

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• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

  John Ruskin

  Climbing, Hiking, Literature

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

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• Distance lends enchantment to the view.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Wisdom, Distance

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Science, Climbing

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 5, 2005.

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Climbing, Earth

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “Tales of the White Mountains”, p.65, Electric Book Company

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• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Adversity, Inspired

  "Lose the Baggage, Lose the Weight: A Woman-to-Woman Recipe for Life" by Lorna Stremcha, p. 63, October 18, 2011.

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• Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

  David McCullough

  Wisdom, Famous Motivational, World

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• Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Environmental

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.364, Library of America

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• I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

  John Marsden

  Climbing, Sky, Long

  John Marsden (1999). “A Killing Frost”, Laurel Leaf

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• The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

  William Arthur Ward

  Climbing, Risk, Suffering

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Struggle, Mean, Adventure

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