450 Quotes About Mountains

If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!

...just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last

I appreciate why I come to the mountains: not to conquer them, but to immerse myself in their incomprehensible immensity - so much bigger than us; to better comprehend humanity and patience balanced in harmony with desire to push hard; to share what the hills offer; and to share it in the long term with good friends and ultimately my own sons.~Alex Lowe while on Shishapangma expedition right before he passed away in an avalanche

Look at the mountains. Look at the oceans! No one else can change the oceans into mountains and no one can change mountains into oceans, because the work of God’s hands is the greatest.

At dawn the sun came across the land and into the window, slanting across the room with equatorial brightness, as close to the land as the earth would allow it.

How exhilarating to be away from the plain! With every minute that passed the mountains climbed with great resolution.

I grew up with my family in Bellas Gate, in a big old ramshackle house. Deep rural. Mountainous. Mist-covered after the rain. Beautiful. Isolated. No radios. No telephones. Life was sweet. Life was harsh.

We lived in a valley, in foothills of ancient mountains. The trees waited for each generation to be born, to keep them company as they watched over us from high above.

The S. J. & E. [railroad] grade can offer beautiful views of the San Joaquin river basin, the Yosemite National Park, and the Southern Slopes of Kaiser Peak. Built in 1912 in a period of 157 days, this nostalgic route through the mountains features wildflowers - Greg Goodman on HIKE NUMBER 20, p. 135