Mountains quotes

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

- John Muir

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

- Aldous Huxley

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Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambitions to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

- Anatoli Bourkreev

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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

- Ansel Adams

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet; 

This is not done by jostling in the street.

- William Blake

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When the wind calls, you know, that somewhere in the mountains, it has found the answers that you were looking for.  The pull of the horizon overcomes the inertia of reason...and you just have to go.

- Vikram Oberoi

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

- John Muir

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I'm a person of the mountains and 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

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This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.

- Bridget Asher

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These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent, so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

- Donald Miller

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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

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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.

- Sir Edmund Hillary

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It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.

- Nemann Buhl

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Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

- Jeffrey Rasley 

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By bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

- Jonathan Waterman

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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

- Friedrich Nietszche 

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Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

- Sir Martin Convay

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I like geography best, he said, because your mountains and rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

- Brian Andreas

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You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory.  Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.

- Lito Tejada-Flores

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If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.  You can climb it and cross to the other side.  You can go around it.  You can dig under it. You can fly over it.  You can blow it up.  You can ignore it and pretend it's not there.  You can turn around and go back the way you came.  Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

- Vera Nazarian

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Marry a mountain girl, and you marry the whole mountain.

- Irish Proverb