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Mountain Peaks Quotes

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

"The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

John Burroughs (2001). “Literary Values and Other Papers”, p.273, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.187, Library of America