Mountain Quotes - Page 29

Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

Men meet; mountains, never.

I will believe that what God has placed inside me is superior to the mountains that stand in my way

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

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

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

Right on through today, my lungs and stamina are my engine. I'm not nearly the strongest guy or the most flexible, but I can definitely sustain pace on the mountain.

For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.

It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.