Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all.
John SteinbeckTags: men women nature personality mountains landscape
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.
Norman MacleanTags: nature mountains geology landscape idaho american-landscape
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert MacfarlaneTags: inspirational adventure humility arrogance mountains oblivion mountaineering
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.
Richard NelsonTags: nature meditation mountains
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.
Reinhold MessnerTags: earth mountains landscape
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.
George MalloryTags: mountains mountaineering climbing everest
Because it's there.
George MalloryTags: mountains mountaineering climbing everest
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John MuirTags: how adventure walking mountains italy europe activity hiking fast abruzzo walking-holiday
May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.
Harley KingTags: dreams courage mountains
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