International Mountain Day is celebrated on 11 of december annually to encourage development of mountains.
Following are the moun tain quotes and mountain climbing quotes.
Mountain Quotes – Mountain Climbing Quotes
“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” » Victor Hugo
“Remember that time spent on a rock climb isn’t subtracted from your life span.” » Will Niccolls
“Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” » Andy Andrews
“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
“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.” » Morihei Ueshiba
“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
“Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.” » Sir Martin Convay
“It’s always further than it looks. It’s always taller than it looks. And it’s always harder than it looks.” » The Three Rules of Mountaineering
“Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” » Nemann Buhl
“For life–which is in any way worthy, is like ascending a mountain. When you have climbed to the first shoulder of the hill, you find another rise above you, and yet another peak, and the height to be achieved seems infinity: but you find as you ascend that the air becomes purer and more bracing, that the clouds gather more frequently below than above, that the sun is warmer than before and that you not only get a clearer view of Heaven, but that you gain a wider view of earth, and that your horizon is perpetually growing larger.” » Endicott Peabody
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” » John Muir
“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” » Vera Nazarian
“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.” » Edmund Hillary
“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” » Jeffrey Rasley
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.” » Brian Andreas
“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.” » Joseph Smith, Jr.
“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
“The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows.” » Sam Cummings
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” » Ed Viesturs
“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
“A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity – culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.” » Rebecca Solnit
“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” » Anatoli Boukreev
“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.” » John Ruskin
“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being” » Ansel Adams
“By bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.” » Jonathan Waterman
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” » Dr. Seuss
“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” » Aldous Huxley
“In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.” » Turkish Proverb
“In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.” » Rusty Baille
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” » Dag Hammarskjold
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.” » Rene Daumal
“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.” » Greg Child
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” » Sir Edmund Hillary
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” » Barry Finlay
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.” » William Blake
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” » Friedrich Neitszche
“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. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It’s no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.” » George Leigh Mallory
“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.” » Bridget Asher
“Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.” » Charles Lindbergh
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” » Tennessee Williams
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” » Richard M. Nixon
“And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth’s shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man’s weak praise should be given God’s attention.” » Donald Miller
“In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” » Jack Kero
“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 cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” » John Muir
“In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of… something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb… and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.” » Rob Parker
“You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.” » Lito Tejada-Flores
“We bow only to the highest mountain.” » Witi Ihimaera
“When the wind calls, you know, that somewhere in the mountains, it has found the answers that you were looking for. The pull of the horizon overcomes the inertia of reason…And you just have to go.” » Vikram Oberoi
