“ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while car… John Muir
“ Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley. Israelmore Ayivor
“ The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts. Israelmore Ayivor
“ Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease. Israelmore Ayivor
“ Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create /… William Wordsworth
“ An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to the side of a church like a barnacle to a rock. I think of this house clamped to the side of Tinker Cr… Annie Dillard
“ The beauty of the place moved me; I loved how the clean air felt in my lungs, how far I was from everything I had ever known. People I'd hurt, people I'd failed, people who thought me a monster. Here… Rachel Hartman
“ That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating. Shannon Mullen
“ 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
“ What appears to be definite and precise does not belong to any acceptable reality. It is only the experiences, the queer previsions, the fleeting premonitions, that are real. Vague and insubstantial t… J.B. Priestley
“ How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this t… George Mallory
“ In the silence of the ticking of the clock’s minute hand, I found you. In the echoes of the reverberations of time, I found you. In the tender silence of the long summer night, I found you. In the fra… Avijeet Das
“ You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow…but of course, without… Robert Persig
“ There are no smooth paths to success. You have to straighten many rugged roads and scale numerous walls for the ultimate triumph. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. Robert Macfarlane
