quotations about mountain climbing
The climb is the teacher.
ALAN HAMMOND
To Climb a Sacred Mountain
Getting a second wind, breaking into a sweat, and becoming determined are all moments of a climb that remind me of a way of being I may have forgotten outside of the wilderness.
DAVID STRONG
Crazy Mountains
You are not in the mountains--the mountains are in you.
JOHN MUIR
attributed, Adventure In You
It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
EDMUND HILLARY
O Magazine, April 2007
The sacred mountain purges the body, then the mind and finally the spirit.
ALAN HAMMOND
To Climb a Sacred Mountain
And into the mountains I go to lose my mind and find my soul.
AMY BADEN HORNER
Memoirs of a Traveling Mama
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
The Mountains of California
May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.
HARLEY KING
attributed, The Girl Who Climbed Everest
Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE
fragment
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Taiko
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi: His Words
Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
ANATOLI BOUKREEV
attributed, Pinterest
In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. When we look out at the ocean or gaze at the sky and the clouds, or even the rock wall of a mountain, it is difficult for our minds to form labels. What is it really that we are looking at? There is no real thing there--just color and shape. And when we stop attaching labels to what we see, a sense of quietness flows in to fill the gap, bringing us a step closer to the understanding of emptiness.
JAMLING NORGAY
attributed, The Zen of Mountains and Climbing
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.
RENE DAUMAL
attributed, Beyond the Summit
The best view comes after the hardest climb.
WA LEOPARD
Fly Your Dreams Today
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.
THOMAS WOLFE
Look Homeward, Angel
Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN
attributed, goodreads
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
BARRY FINLAY
attributed, Growing Up Is Optional
I climbed Everest so you wouldn't have to.
TENZING NORGAY
attributed, Himalayan Research Bulletin, 2002
The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
A Return to Love