#mountains

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 learn the news ↗

— John Muir

#materialism #mountains #nature #wildness-is-a-necessity #life

Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#religion

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#grain #like #mountains #remove #will

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#boards #built #covered #immense #lies

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#find #mountains #only #tops #up

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#been #clean #complex #end #focus

I learn something every time I go into the mountains. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#every time #go #i #into #learn

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#being #dynamic #efficiently #foot #get

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#beautiful #big #countryside #fact #i

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ↗

— John Ruskin

#end #mountains #natural #scenery