"The mountains are calling, and I must go." John Muir perfectly sums up our feelings about these majestic natural wonders. Mountains have always been a source of awe and beauty, and sometimes we don't have the words to capture how much we admire them. Nature quotes can help put into words how much exhilarating it is to look at mountains, climb and hike mountains, ski mountains—and even how much we enjoy them as a powerful metaphor for hard work, exploration, and victory in literature, art, and music. ("Climb Every Mountain" from The Sound of Music, anyone?)
For our money, nothing beats the feeling of reaching the summit of a mountain and looking down on the world below. But during those times when you're stuck at home instead of exploring a beautiful blue peak, explore these inspirational hiking quotes and camping quotes to help transport you to your own mental mountaintop. Now on to some mountain-specific quotes!
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Dag Hammarskjöld
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was."
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Greg Child
"Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb."
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John Muir
"The mountains are calling, and I must go."
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Paulo Coelho
"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."
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Anonymous
"The best view comes after the hardest climb."
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Barry Finlay
"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."
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Werner Herzog
"Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life."
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John Muir
"We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us."
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Thomas Wolfe
"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."
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Harley King
"May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits."
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John Lubbock
"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."
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William Blake
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street."
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John Muir
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."
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Jane Austen
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
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Robert Macfarlane
"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."
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John Muir
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
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Phillip Connors
"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."
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Haruki Murakami
"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."
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Anatoli Boukreev
"Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion."
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John Marsden
"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."
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