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\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes on mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mountain quotes and aphorisms by great authors, ideas, thoughts, reflections and poetic phrases about mountains, peaks, climbs, climbers and their metaphors of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.<\/span>
\nAleister Crowley<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves. <\/span>
\nTodd Skinner<\/span><\/p>\n

I learn something every time I go into the mountains. <\/span>
\nMichael Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. <\/span>
\nAnatoli Boukreev<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun. <\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The mountain has never attracted me, in fact I have never liked to climb too high, I prefer to keep my feet more or less at sea level.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was. <\/span>
\nDag Hammerskjold<\/span><\/p>\n

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street. <\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God. <\/span>
\nJeremy Lin<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribbleto sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. <\/span>
\nPhillip Connors<\/span><\/p>\n

I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what’s important in life. <\/span>
\nMark Obmascik<\/span><\/p>\n

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. <\/span>
\nJohn Muir<\/span><\/p>\n

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. <\/span>
\nWilma Rudolph<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itselfin all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatiguethat has to be the goal. <\/span>
\nKaryn Kusama<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mountain<\/a>
Mountain famous quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can\u2019t move mountains by whispering at them. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. <\/span>
\nWerner Herzog<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountain people are generally increasingly stingy, introverted and above all think they are better than their unfortunate colleagues on earth.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. <\/span>
\nEd Viesturs<\/span><\/p>\n

In the mountains there are only two grades: you can either do it, or you can\u2019t. <\/span>
\nRusty Baillie<\/span><\/p>\n

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. <\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life. <\/span>
\nSylvester Stallone<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you\u2019re climbing it. <\/span>
\nAndy Rooney<\/span><\/p>\n

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters. <\/span>
\nConrad Anker<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the mountains, more mountains. <\/span>
\nHaitian proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

I have always preferred the sea to the mountains, meaning peaks, with some exceptions for the woods, where rebels usually take refuge.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. <\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. <\/span>
\nJames Dyson<\/span><\/p>\n

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. <\/span>
\nRobert M. Pirsig<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mountains<\/a>
Mountains aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace. <\/span>
\nGeorge W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view. <\/span>
\nSebastian Thrun<\/span><\/p>\n

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. <\/span>
\nT. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Always be thankful for the little things\u2026even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views. <\/span>
\nNyki Mack<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. <\/span>
\nGreg Child<\/span><\/p>\n

Life’s a bit like mountaineering, never look down. <\/span>
\nEdmund Hillary<\/span><\/p>\n

I have always preferred seaside vacations to mountain vacations, also because I see people dressed all year round, and the human circus always has a certain effect on me.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. <\/span>
\nTheodore Roethke<\/span><\/p>\n

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something. <\/span>
\nSir Martin Convay<\/span><\/p>\n

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books. <\/span>
\nJohn Lubbock<\/span><\/p>\n

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. <\/span>
\nRichard Nixon<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.<\/span>
\nJohn Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. <\/span>
\nJohn Muir<\/span><\/p>\n

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. <\/span>
\nBarbara Walters<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes and ideas about the mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You don’t climb mountains without a team, you don’t climb mountains without being fit, you don’t climb mountains without being prepared and you don’t climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accidentit has to be intentional.
\nMark Udall<\/span><\/p>\n

Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them. <\/span>
\nSwami Vivekananda<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not a revolutionary at all. Imagine the ideal society as a happy reality beyond a great mountain of stupidity. Just build a tunnel and there we are in the middle of serenity. Come on, we need explosives!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So\u2026get on your way! <\/span>
\nDr. Seuss<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. <\/span>
\nSir Edmund Hillary<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nJohn Marsden<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. <\/span>
\nRobert Macfarlane<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t do with mountains at close quarters – they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.<\/span>
\nD. H. Lawrence<\/span><\/p>\n

The last word always belongs to the mountain. <\/span>
\nAnatoli Boukreev<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.<\/span>
\nJosephine Tey<\/span><\/p>\n

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. <\/span>
\nJohn Muir<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder\u2019s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain. <\/span>
\nHaruki Murakami<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeing some of my acquaintances in the mountains during the Christmas holidays, I remember the good old days of university, when I had to work on holidays, always, while many of my classmates went to have fun, in the summer to the sea, and in the winter to the snow!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it. <\/span>
\nHerbert A. Simon<\/span><\/p>\n

The mountains are calling, and I must go. <\/span>
\nJohn Muir<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mountain<\/a>
Mountain short meditations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.<\/span>
\nRobert W. Service<\/span><\/p>\n

What draws us from the low valleys to the high mountains is that noble stance of the summits! <\/span>
\nMehmet Murat ildan<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nDavid McCullough Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountaineer from Brescia falls three thousand meters, he is in very serious conditions. Praise the mountains and keep to the plain!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart. <\/span>
\nDan May<\/span><\/p>\n

When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time. <\/span>
\nCatherine Pulsifer<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.<\/span>
\nNathaniel Hawthorne<\/span><\/p>\n

The best view comes after the hardest climb. <\/span>
\nVanessa Gendoma<\/span><\/p>\n

I would not exchange all the most beautiful views of nature, be they spectacular mountain, sea, plain or city scenes, for a single glance at my mother’s face, serene, cheerful, but also suffering.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home. <\/span>
\nFred Beckey<\/span><\/p>\n

In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home. <\/span>
\nFred Beckey<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a world out there, and you have got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime. <\/span>
\nBill Janklow<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nThomas Wolfe<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain. <\/span>
\nAndrew Garfield<\/span><\/p>\n

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. <\/span>
\nJohn Muir<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mountains<\/a>
Mountains quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mountains are a reminder of the power and majesty of nature, and of our own smallness in the face of it.<\/span>
\nAjaz Ahmad Khawaja<\/span><\/p>\n

What are men to rocks and mountains? <\/span>
\nJane Austen<\/span><\/p>\n

Once in a high school class in the mountains they asked me what I would do to people like Pacciani (the famous monster of Florence), my answer was that I would clone a dozen of them and send them right to that area.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. <\/span>
\nJeanne Moreau<\/span><\/p>\n

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wears you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. <\/span>
\nMuhammad Ali<\/span><\/p>\n

It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it. <\/span>
\nBhuwan Thapaliya<\/span><\/p>\n

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.<\/span>
\nPercy Bysshe Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find strength to rise up. <\/span>
\nTyler Knott<\/span><\/p>\n

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits. <\/span>
\nHarley King<\/span><\/p>\n

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! <\/span>
\nJohn Muir<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.<\/span>
\nJohn Ruskin<\/span><\/p>\n

The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don\u2019t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far. <\/span>
\nPaul Coelho<\/span><\/p>\n

Mountain top: the place where life finds the purest meaning of freedom.<\/span>
\nVinicius Montgomery<\/span><\/p>\n

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. <\/span>
\nBarry Finlay<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know why, but on a visual and emotional level, if I really have to choose, I prefer desert canyons with little vegetation, to lush mountains full of a flourishing and vain natural wealth.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be deniedit speaks in silence to the very core of your being. <\/span>
\nAnsel Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

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