450 Quotes About Mountains

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.

I just love all this,' Walt says. 'The sights, the smells, making the effort and pushing yourself and getting something that's really hard to get. I'll fly on a plane and people will look out the window at thirty thousand feet and say, 'Isn't this view good enough for you?' And I say no, it's not good enough. I didn't earn it. In the mountains, I earn it.

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.(Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)

Away acrost his valley he sees Black Mountain rising jagged to the sky...and if he looks to the left on past it, he sees all the furtherest ranges, line on line. Purple and blue and blue again and smoky until you can't tell the mountains apart from the sky. Lord, it'll make a man think something, seeing that. It'll make a man think deep.

A woman of faith is not limited by the apparent limitations, because nothing can limit a woman with the power to move mountains.