“Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself.” – Joan Bauer
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. —Rachel Carson
Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my bones. They have taught me, humbled me, purified me and changed me. ― Joan Halifax
Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. -Janice Anderson
Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes. ― Andrea Gibson
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“What’s the difference? Happiness involves a victory for the self, an expansion of self. Happiness comes as we move toward our goals, when things go our way. You get a big promotion. You graduate from college. Your team wins the Super Bowl. You have a delicious meal. Happiness often has to do with some success, some new ability, or some heightened sensual pleasure. Joy tends to involve some transcendence of self. It’s when the skin barrier between you and some other person or entity fades away and you feel fused together. Joy is present when mother and baby are gazing adoringly into each other’s eyes, when a hiker is overwhelmed by beauty in the woods and feels at one with nature, when a gaggle of friends are dancing deliriously in unison. Joy often involves self-forgetting. Happiness is what we aim for on the first mountain. Joy is a by-product of living on the second mountain.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. - Julia Cameron
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.— John Muir
Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes, and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful. – William Stafford
Every morning I wake up with an unknown, unexplainable joy of life. Then I get lost in the beauty of the morning sun and all of the magnificence that surrounds me. – Debasish Mridha
Dreams are not made to put us to sleep, but to awaken us.― Ed Viesturs
From my tears of happiness I have became a mountain of strength surrounded by a sea of Joy. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it’s no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed. –Paulo Coelho
Cool and lonely canyon,
With fiery, sunset eyes.
Rivers make companions
And creeks adorn your smile
Your lips, they are the mountains
And you breathe the smoky skies.
–Thomas Jack Crose
Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life. – John Amatt
Hope is valuable. The smallest fraction of hope can grow into the abundant mountain you need to keep going.― Kaylee Stepkoski
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir
All your future tomorrow's are destined to become an actual reflection of all your yesterdays. ― Steven Redhead
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
And what perceive. –William Wordsworth
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. –Douglas Hyde
Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt. ― Neil Gaiman
Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence. – Sabrina Elkins
We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children – Native American Proverb
Solitude is like a sharpener. It makes you rotate against the blade edge shaving away your worn surfaces. ― Anoir Ou-Chad
No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue // Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you. – Lisa Kleypas
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. – Robert Green Ingersoll
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. –Victoria Erickson
