Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...
― John Muir

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous
–Aristotle

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain he is inspired by it.
– William Arthur Ward

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
– Edmund Hillary

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
–Henry David Thoreau

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
–Edward Abbey

Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
–Walt Whitman

Wilderness is  not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
–Edward Abbey

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
–Frank LLoyd Wright

When preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart.
–Dan May

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
–Henry David Thoreau

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
–John Muir

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
–Paul D. Boyer

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead
–J.R.R. Tolkien

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
–Jack Kerouac

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least–and it is commonly more than that–sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
–Henry David Thoreau

Come forth into the light of things. Let Nature be your teacher.
–William Wordsworth

I only went for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
—John Muir

Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea,/Drink the wild air’s salubrity
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don’t stop hiking because we grow old – we grow old because we stop hiking.
–Finis Mitchell

Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.
–Albert Einstein

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
–William Blake