Mountains

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mount Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.
- Bruce Barcott

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.
- E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
- James Ramsey Ullman

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, 1838 - 1914

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
- Maurice Chevalier, 1888 - 1972