MOUNTAIN QUOTES III

quotations about mountains

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

ROBERT MACFARLANE

Mountains of the Mind


So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar,
But bind him to his native mountains more.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Traveller

Tags: Oliver Goldsmith


A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Human, All Too Human

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

DONALD MILLER

Through Painted Deserts


Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the disheveled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

W. B. YEATS

The Land of Heart's Desire

Tags: W. B. Yeats


Better than mountains are only those mountains which you have never climbed.

VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY

attributed, Mountains Forever


Men meet, mountains stand still.

LEWIS CASS

attributed, Day's Collacon


A mountain at a distance appears smooth; as we approach, it seems rugged.

TAMIL

attributed, Day's Collacon


The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I've been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I've let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.

RICHARD NELSON

The Island Within


Mountains are a gateway to higher thinking.

RAINA M. PARIS

The Mother-to-Be's Dream Book


All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other--
Only the mountain and I.

LI BAI

"Alone Looking at the Mountain"


Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

JOHN MUIR

Our National Parks


Mountains were loved by our Lord.

ADAMNAN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

REINHOLD MESSNER

All Fourteen 8,000ers


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

My First Summer in the Sierra


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

Look Homeward


Sometimes I think my mountains are like a fence that runs between this part of the world and the rest of creation. Nobody can see out and nobody can see in.

CATHRYN HANKLA

A Blue Moon in Poorwater


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

JOHN MUIR

The Mountains of California


As for me, mountains are like bridges that connect the land we live on with heaven, a place where our souls are close to God. Standing on a hilltop, I always feel myself an integral part of the universe.

PARA LIMBU

Mountains Forever


He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Lord of the Rings

Tags: J. R. R. Tolkien