"The mountains are calling and I must go."
John Muir
Mountains Quotes
9 FAMOUS QUOTES · MOUNTAINS
Mountains Quotes
Read 9 famous mountains quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Because it's there."
George Mallory
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
Sir Edmund Hillary
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
John Muir
"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
Sir Edmund Hillary
"Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion."
Reinhold Messner
"My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here."
Robert Burns
"Going to the mountains is going home."
John Muir
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
William Blake