Mountain Quotes - Page 6

• Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

  Jacquie Phelan

  Cycling, People, Enthusiasm

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• And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. 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

  Nature, Eye, Men

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.253, Harper Collins

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• Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

  Chris Darwin

  Funny, Wall, Climbing

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• Everybody has got their vibes - it could be mountain biking, it could be hiking, but for me, it's surfing and music. There's a lot of different things, but I think love gives us peace one way or another, and a calming effect on our soul, so I don't know exactly what love is to me, but I know I try my best to surround myself with that.

  Aaron Bruno

  Love Is, Thinking, Giving

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• Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.

  Greg Child

  Struggle, Climbing, Feet

  Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Climbing

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• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Inspirational, Success, Climbing

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• If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

  Wilfrid Noyce

  Ocean, Adventure, Men

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• I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

  Leslie Stephen

  Believe, Men, Mountain Peaks

  Leslie Stephen (2013). “The Playground of Europe”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Stars, Home

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• I was fortunate enough not to grow up in Hollywood, so I feel that was a blessing. Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy. My parents were smart to keep my brother and I away from that nonsense. I do live in the LA area now, but I keep my balance by hiking in the mountains with my dogs and taking trail
  rides every week on my horse.

  Alison Eastwood

  Dog, Brother, Horse

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• The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Perspective, Trying

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• Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

  Hosea Ballou

  Biblical, Energy, Mustard Seed

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• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

  Terry Pratchett

  Peace, Military, War

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves

  Greg Behrendt

  Moving, Men, Want

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

  Gary Snyder

  Years, Still In Love, Range

  Gary Snyder, Tom Killion (2005). “The High Sierra of California”, p.112, Heyday

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• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Wrinkles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Feelings, Today, Wonder

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• Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

  Robert Genn

  Beautiful, Powerful, Noble

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• Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

  Austin O'Malley

  Lonely, Progress, Morality

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Memories, Learning

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• When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.

  Galen Rowell

  Climbing, Challenges, World

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