“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death....Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they w…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“People were evidently looking for something in the mountains they believed they had lost a long time ago.”— Robert Seethaler, amazon.com
“Spent time this week in the mountains. It’s good to disconnect, all things important in the city are irrelevant here.”— Dan Bilzerian, twitter.com
“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”— Edmund Hillary, telegraph.co.uk
“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, amazon.com
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It see…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com