Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was. — Dag Hammarskjöld

 

You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you. – John Muir

 

The mountains are the last place where man can feel truly wild. – We Dream of Travel

 

So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear. – Wu Ming-Yi

 

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child

 

The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far. — Paulo Coelho

 

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. — Barry Finlay

 

Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained. – Aleksander Lwow

 

I like geography best because your mountains & rivers know the secret; Pay no attention to borders. – Brian Andreas

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. — Werner Herzog

 

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

 

What are men to rocks and mountains? – Jane Austen

 

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

 

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir

 

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. – Anatoli Boukreev

 

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits. —  Harley King

 

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books. — John Lubbock

 

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street. — William Blake

 

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir

 

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

 

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!  — John Muir

 

The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble—to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. — Phillip Connors

 

‘I like the mountains because they make me feel small,’ Jeff says. ‘They help me sort out what’s important in life.’ – Mark Obmascik

 

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain. — Haruki Murakami

 

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

 

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way! – Dr. Seuss

Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. — Anatoli Boukreev

 

I’m a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that’s me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I’d die; I don’t know what of, I just knew I’d die. — John Marsden

 

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. – Jeffrey Rasley