450 Quotes About Mountains

So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.

the Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out.

Climb to the summits not to defeat the mountains but to ease their lonelinesses!

No mountain comes to you! If you want the mountain, you must go to him!

…the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

We admire the cold peaks of the mountains but we live in the hot paradises of the plains!

You can never feel the real power of the mountains until you start climbing their summits!

The floor consisted of the most colorful marble that is found in our mountains. The slabs overlapped so well that scarcely a joint could be seen; the marble was smoothed and polished very finely and the colors so arranged that the floor gave the impression of a lovely picture. Moreover it gleamed and shimmered in the light that was streaming in from the windows.