This isn’t about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

From Greenland’s icy mountains, / From India’s coral strand, / Where Afric’s sunny fountains / Roll down their golden sand.

If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell...

You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?” Came the inquiry.”Yes, it’s a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?””It is called Karakal””I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it. Is is very high?””Over twenty-eight...

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

This is a classic ‘La Nina’ pattern, with snow accumulating in the Northern Colorado mountains during the midwinter months.

If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn’t enough.

May those who are still hidden in the mountains hear me. I am not going to give you a truce,

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...

Colorado and Wyoming are America’s highest states, averaging 6,800 feet and 6,700 feet above sea level. Utah comes in third at 6,100 feet, New Mexico, Nevada, and Idaho each break 5,000 feet, and the rest...

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun,...

They were relaxing at the top of a waterfall, in a small, still pool where the mountain waters hit an upward slope of folded granite. It was sort of a rounded bathtub, carved out of...

I’m part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it’s like I’m breathing through them.

I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up; and 4 days walking on the Inca Trail, then more in...

I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot say, unless it could be that morning came over the peaks of the...

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn’t. All that space, waiting.

The hills and mountains on your ways are going to be removed. But remember that’s what should happen when God gives you the shovel. Use your gifts; it’s the escape route!

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to...

Drømme tåler ikke å bli virkeliggjort, sier dikterne, for da dør de. Her gikk den lys levende og i all sin høireiste glans like lukt ind i sin jordiske inkarnation – i et fjorten hundrede...

just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I’dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on...

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)

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...