| "The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain Mt. Rainier emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain." »Bruce Barcott |
| "And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." »William Shakespeare |
| "Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow." »Alice Mackenzie Swaim |
| "In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." »James Russell Lowell |
| "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve |
| "And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth." »Native American Prayer |
| "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." »Sir Edmund Hillary |
| "Today is your day Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way." »Theodor Seuss Geisel |
| "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view." »Harry Millner |
| "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast." »William Congreve |
| "One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time." »John Wanamaker |
| "The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ." »Unknown |
| "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun." »Ruth Westheimer |
| "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." »Robert M. Pirsig |
| "Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird" »Edward Hersey Richards |
| "In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy." »James Russell Lowell |
| "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." »Sir John Lubbock |
| "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." »John Muir |
| "Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." »Robert Service |
| "I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." »Brenda Ueland |
| "It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson |
| "You never conquer a mountain. mountains can't be conquered you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears." »Jim Whitaker |
| "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never." »Edna Ferber |
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