Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

There’s nothing that can defy the law of movement. Everything was created to move including the biggest of our mountains.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom...

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

You are funny like a kid and awesome like a princessUnseen like an angel, like the morning sunshine… Kindness like a river and highness like a mountain, In the middle of the Rheine, the cute...

The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all...

You don’t need to climb a mountain to know that it’s high.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I...

When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.

All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor’s Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)

Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.

God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth.

You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they’re changing all the time and the changes aren’t always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there are forces...

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...

The pull of the mountain is like gravity for my soul.

Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

Spindelvævlette, verdenshavtunge fjernersprænger i dragsug menneskesjæle og stjerner – intet har form eller navn. Se, jeg er stille – se, jeg er rum og susning, se, jeg er aften efter en brændende dag. Jeg er...

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become...

With faith the size of a mustard seed, you can indeed move a mountain, but you can hardly be expected to garnish your sandwich.

Across the oceans, in the middle of the rivers and at the peak of mountains; nothing can ever change my feelings for you.

I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of earth and heaven in the silence, the requiem birds, the mythic beasts, the...

I’m here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

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...

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course,...

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

there are many thousands, potentially tens of thousands, up there in the mountains that are wounded we haven’t gotten to.

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. This allegory of a physical...

India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with...

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.

Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the...

Timer – timer i fjeldene. I mørke kan hænde, i uveir og kamp – Og de lyse, ugripelige, de av forfærdelig skjønhet. Dem du nødig nævner, og aldri kan dele med nogen, fordi de tilhører...

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as...

Most people are here because they don’t want to live in a big city. They don’t care about bistros or the opera. They care about the mountains . . . and letting their kids play...

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station – and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe were coming to attention, a Universe of which one is the center, a...

Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.

Mountains are Savage but what is the best part about them ? They bring people Closer …

The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet…this worshipful...

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity....

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing a complicated life into a simple goal. All you have to...

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

stronger than mountains.a place where my heart feels the safest- underneath his shirt.

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, humility, the fear of death, the terror of height and of distance, the glory of...

If the sun refused to shine, I’d still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Vi sitter på varden og lar blikket seile. Fra jøkelens islys i øst til Lofotvæggens hilderland i vest under havranden. Det ryker av dypet og det driver av himlen, mens storm og tåke knuses mot...