210 Mountain Quotes

Following is our list of mountain quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about top of the mountain.

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Famous Mountain Quotes

In the mountains, there you feel free. — T. S. Eliot

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. - Al Neuharth

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. — Al Neuharth

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist. — Rabindranath Tagore

Going to the mountains is going home. — John Muir

Climb mountains to see lowlands. — Chinese Proverbs

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake

The mountains were just about the best therapy a person could experience. — Nirmal Purja

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. — John Ruskin

The mountain cannot be conquered by words, only by action and effort. — Nirmal Purja

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. — James Rogers

The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

There is no mountain anywhere everyman ignorance is his own mountain — David Oyedepo

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Short Mountain Quotes

  • You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way! — Dr. Seuss
  • It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. — Edmund Hillary
  • Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche — Bob Goff
  • No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you. — Helen Steiner Rice
  • The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — William Faulkner
  • I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains! — Reinhard Bonnke
  • The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius
  • It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. — Muhammad Ali
  • Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain — Sun Tzu
  • Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music — Matsuo Basho

Mountain Image Quotes

Mountain quote Don't climb mountains so that people can see you. Climb mountains that you can see the world.
Don't climb mountains so that people can see you. Climb mountains that you can see the world.
You can't move mountains by whispering at them. - Pink quote

You can't move mountains by whispering at them. — Pink

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees - Sappho quote

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! - John Muir quote

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! — John Muir

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains. - Gale Norton quote

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains. — Gale Norton

Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously. - Yi Sun-sin quote

Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously. — Yi Sun-sin

Just put one foot in front of the other. - Austin Peck quote

Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life. - Tenzing Norgay quote

I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life. — Tenzing Norgay

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. - Marilyn French quote

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. — Marilyn French

You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it. - Alex Zanardi quote

You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it. — Alex Zanardi

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. - H. Emilie Cady quote

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. — H. Emilie Cady

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt. - William Lloyd Garrison quote

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt. — William Lloyd Garrison

But teaching is like climbing a mountain. - Fawn M. Brodie quote

But teaching is like climbing a mountain. — Fawn M. Brodie

Over hill and under hill - J. R. R. Tolkien quote

Over hill and under hill — J. R. R. Tolkien

Mountain quote You keep putting one foot in front of the other and then one day you look back and you've climbed a
You keep putting one foot in front of the other and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Climbing Mountain Quotes

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity. — John Muir

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain — Jack Kerouac

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

Mountain quote It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe.
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. — Andy Rooney

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news — John Muir

Mountain quote Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the
Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help! — Robert H. Schuller

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. — Tal Ben-Shahar

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia

Top Of The Mountain Quotes

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn. — Shane Koyczan

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

Mountain quote Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office of mowing your lawn.
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office of mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

On top of the mountain lives the eagle, and the fly lives on the horse's butt. — Albanian Proverbs

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. — Robert M. Pirsig

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mountain quote Adventure isn't hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply
Adventure isn't hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air. — Shania Twain

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child

On the trail from Namche Bazaar, you come up and you see this big mountain, Ama Dablam. Wow! I just started thinking, what would it feel like to be on the top of that mountain? What would you be able to see? — Nirmal Purja

Rocky Mountain Quotes

I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it. — Margot Kidder

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money. — Robert Adams

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.' — Jim Rohn

Mountain quote A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! — Jules Verne

Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way. — William C. Bryant

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been. — Meriwether Lewis

Mountain quote Did you know you had that much power? You can move mountains.
Did you know you had that much power? You can move mountains.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world. — Henry David Thoreau

In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion. — Dave Barry

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men — Mother Jones

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. — Joseph Smith, Jr.

Mountain Climbing Quotes

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain. — Tom Hiddleston

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top - Yvon Chouinard

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top — Yvon Chouinard

When you are in the mountains, you find out who you really are. Any mistake I make, it could be death. When it comes to that moment, you want to survive. You want to live. I climb so I can live every moment of my life. — Nirmal Purja

Mountain quote Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.
Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. — Ingmar Bergman

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. - John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. — John Muir

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. — John Muir

Mountain quote When you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer to the top yourself.
When you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer to the top yourself.

Because of what I did and where I came from, people just assumed I'd climbed every mountain in my country. — Nirmal Purja

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. — John Muir

If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man. — Wilfrid Noyce

The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul. — Walter Bonatti

Nature Mountain Quotes

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky. — John Denver

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done. — Milarepa

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

Mountain quote Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. — John Muir

The Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain range, have always been a natural fortress dividing India and China. The higher they are, the less accessible they become and the greater their power becomes. — Tim Marshall

Country is in ruins, and there are still mountains and rivers. — Japanese Proverbs

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life. — Susan Polis Schutz

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. — Junko Tabei

Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end. — Eliot Coleman

Mountain Top Quotes

Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top. — DJ Khaled

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are. — John Denver

When one is in love, a mountain top becomes a flat field. — African Proverbs

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. - Anya Seton

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. — Anya Seton

Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found. — Edgar Allan Poe

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. — Robert Macfarlane

We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.' — Paul Provenza

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. — Hunter S. Thompson

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top. — Roy Rogers

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise. — Bob Seger

Mountain Man Quotes

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman. — Oscar Niemeyer

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains. — Bill Mauldin

A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves — Greg Behrendt

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur. — Edmund Hillary

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain. — Francis Kilvert

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way. — Lao Tzu

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world. — Zhuangzi

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. — George Carlin

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. — George William Curtis

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. — Theodore Roosevelt

Mountain View Quotes

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

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. — David McCullough Jr.

Distance lends enchantment to the view. — Mark Twain

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will. — Gregory of Nyssa

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. — Jacques Lipchitz

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves. — Peter J. Carroll

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view. — Julian Lennon

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. — Thomas Campbell

Mountain Peaks Quotes

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs — Friedrich Nietzsche

I summited four mountains - Kangchenjunga, Makalu, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum I - in one push. I didn't camp anywhere. Just went boom, summit, brother. — Nirmal Purja

Success is not found at the peak of the mountain, it’s found in the journey that brought you there. — Nirmal Purja

Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain. — Nirmal Purja

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. — Rudolf Otto

Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom. — Daniel Norris

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon. — Ikkyu

Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds. — Everett Ruess

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. — Paul D. Boyer

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Mountain Air Quotes

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. — Joseph Rodman Drake

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others. — Mikhail Lermontov

Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort. — Loren Eiseley

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine. — Jean Craighead George

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. — Ralph Steadman

Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. — Anne Lamott

I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone. — Jeremiah

Mountain Height Quotes

When a camel is at the foot of a mountain only then judge his height. — Indian Proverbs

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us. — Henry David Thoreau

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits. — Anatoli Boukreev

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. — Amelia Earhart

When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain. — Buddha

Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range. — Li Bai

All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek. — Robinson Jeffers

When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height. — Sun Tzu

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. — Rabindranath Tagore

Mountain Ranges Quotes

Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range. — Chief Dan George

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love. — Gary Snyder

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. — Robert W. Service

I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me! — Dorothea Mackellar

We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion. — Roger Tory Peterson

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range. — Artur Schnabel

Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself. — N.D. Wilson

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. — David Suzuki

The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct. — William O. Douglas

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. — Homer

Terrain Quotes

International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible. — Samora Machel

I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy. — Yuri Gagarin

It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles. — Terry Fox

I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC. — Joe Lando

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. — A.C. Grayling

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That. — Hafez

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain. — Theodor Herzl

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice. — Paul Virilio

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps. — Fernando Pessoa

To change the world, you must be different than the world. To lead, you must go first. You must divert from the common path, you must navigate unmapped terrain. — Brianna Wiest

Snow Mountain Quotes

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding. — Shaun White

Mountains are used to snow — Greek Proverbs

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies. — Gaston Rebuffat

There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder snow. It gives a supreme feeling of freedom, mobility. A great sense of flying, moving anywhere in a great white paradise. — Hans Gmoser

K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it. — Ed Viesturs

How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach — Hanshan

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. — Andy Goldsworthy

Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone. — William Wordsworth

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is? — Curtis Armstrong

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More Mountain Quotes

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. — Lao Tzu

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. — Thabo Mbeki

If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there. — Kahlil Gibran

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. — Pablo Neruda

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. — J. R. R. Tolkien

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too. — Salman Rushdie

The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons. — Pope John Paul II

I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever. — Hatshepsut

I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions. — Frederick Lenz

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light. — Milarepa

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. — Jack Weatherford

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. — Richard M. Nixon

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