Mountain quotes and aphorisms by great authors, ideas, thoughts, reflections and poetic phrases about mountains, peaks, climbs, climbers and their metaphors of life.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
Aleister Crowley
We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.
Todd Skinner
I learn something every time I go into the mountains.
Michael Kennedy
Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
Anatoli Boukreev
No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.
Chinese Proverb
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.
Carl William Brown
Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammerskjold
Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.
William Blake
Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.
Jeremy Lin
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.
Phillip Connors
I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what’s important in life.
Mark Obmascik
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
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.
Karyn Kusama
You can’t move mountains by whispering at them.
Anonymous
Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.
Werner Herzog
Mountain people are generally increasingly stingy, introverted and above all think they are better than their unfortunate colleagues on earth.
Carl William Brown
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs
In the mountains there are only two grades: you can either do it, or you can’t.
Rusty Baillie
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Sylvester Stallone
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
Andy Rooney
The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
Conrad Anker
Beyond the mountains, more mountains.
Haitian proverb
I have always preferred the sea to the mountains, meaning peaks, with some exceptions for the woods, where rebels usually take refuge.
Carl William Brown
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
James Dyson
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig
We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.
George W. Bush
I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
Sebastian Thrun
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
T. S. Eliot
Always be thankful for the little things…even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views.
Nyki Mack
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
Greg Child
Life’s a bit like mountaineering, never look down.
Edmund Hillary
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.
Carl William Brown
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke
Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.
Sir Martin Convay
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.
John Lubbock
Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard Nixon
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.
John Ruskin
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Barbara Walters
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.
Mark Udall
Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them.
Swami Vivekananda
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!
Carl William Brown
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So…get on your way!
Dr. Seuss
It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
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
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert Macfarlane
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.
D. H. Lawrence
The last word always belongs to the mountain.
Anatoli Boukreev
Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.
Josephine Tey
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
John Muir
Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s 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.
Haruki Murakami
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!
Carl William Brown
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.
Herbert A. Simon
The mountains are calling, and I must go.
John Muir
It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
What draws us from the low valleys to the high mountains is that noble stance of the summits!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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.
Mountaineer from Brescia falls three thousand meters, he is in very serious conditions. Praise the mountains and keep to the plain!
Carl William Brown
When preparing to climb a mountain, pack a light heart.
Dan May
When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time.
Catherine Pulsifer
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The best view comes after the hardest climb.
Vanessa Gendoma
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.
Carl William Brown
In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home.
Fred Beckey
In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home.
Fred Beckey
There is a world out there, and you have got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
Bill Janklow
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.
Thomas Wolfe
I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.
Andrew Garfield
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
John Muir
The mountains are a reminder of the power and majesty of nature, and of our own smallness in the face of it.
Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja
What are men to rocks and mountains?
Jane Austen
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.
Carl William Brown
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Jeanne Moreau
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wears you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
It is very tough to climb a mountain. However, it is not as tough as convincing yourself that you can climb it.
Bhuwan Thapaliya
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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.
Tyler Knott
May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.
Harley King
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin
The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.
Paul Coelho
Mountain top: the place where life finds the purest meaning of freedom.
Vinicius Montgomery
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
Barry Finlay
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.
Carl William Brown
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be deniedit speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Ansel Adams
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