Mountains Quotes

“I just want to be a mountain man.”

“How great a pleasure, how great a delight for the mind... is to be rapt in admiration by the greatness of the mountains, by the theatre of Our Lord, and to raise one’s head, so to speak, into the clouds.”

“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil.”

“The mountains had been my friends. They had whispered their secrets to me.”

“The lure of the mountains is a very real and powerful thing. It is a secret and a subtle call. It is a thing that can only be understood by those who have felt it.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”

“Going to the mountains is going home.”

“Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.”

“Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.”

“Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.”

“The great value of a mountain is that it is there. Its presence is a declaration of permanence and stability in a world of flux.”

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.”

“I choose the mountain for my own, and find it a fit companion for my thoughts.”

“The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.”