Nature & Outdoors: Mountain Quotes

Explore a curated collection of mountain quotes that celebrate towering peaks, quiet valleys, and the spirit of ascent. These lines capture awe, perseverance, and the calm clarity found above the treeline. Whether you seek motivation for your next hike or a moment of reflection, find words that honor resilience, solitude, and wonder. From dawn-lit ridges to snow-capped summits, let concise insights accompany your journey through nature and the outdoors.

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"Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life"

George Cuvier

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet"

William Blake, Poet

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"The mountains are calling and I must go"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

"My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

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"I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"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, Celebrity

"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

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"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds"

Edward Abbey, Author

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

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"The Pyrenees are no more"

Louis XIV, Royalty

"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

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"Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue"

Thomas Campbell, Poet

"There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest"

Alex Lowe, Athlete

"It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return"

Alex Lowe, Athlete

"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

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"Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me"

Bradley Chicho, Poet

"The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy"

George Leigh Mallory, Celebrity

"We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth"

George Leigh Mallory, Celebrity

"I like to go rock scrambling"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones"

George Cuvier

"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do"

Christy Turlington, Model

"I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places"

Robin Day, Journalist

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"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

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"Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet"

Robert Ballard, Scientist

"Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow"

Richard H. Davis, Writer

"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below"

Daniel Boone, Explorer

"In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

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"I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

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"I respect Everest very much"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

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