Mountain Man Quotes:

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

source: "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

topic: Travel, Home, Tired, Wildness, National Parks

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

- John Milius

topic: Integrity, Men, Live Your Life, Mountain Man, Artistic Integrity

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Graduation

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

- William Blake

topic: Sports, Determination, Men, Inspiring Nature, Climbing Mountain

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

- Louis L'Amour

topic: Inspirational, Country, Men, Mountain Man

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Incrementalism, Perserverance

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

- Donald Miller

topic: Nature, Eye, Men, Mountain Man

The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

topic: Nature, Mountain, Calling, National Parks, Climbing Mountain

So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

- George Leigh Mallory

topic: Struggle, Mean, Adventure, Mountain Top, Climbing Mountain

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.

- Walter Bonatti

topic: Men, Soul, Mountain, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Climbing Mountain

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Nature, Men, Sea, Mountain Man

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

- John Muir

topic: Men, Mountain, He Man, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

- Gigi Graham

topic: Goodbye, Mother, Men, Mountain Man

On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.

- Lionel Terray

topic: Beautiful, Men, Mountain, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Rock Climbing

So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man." "Yep" "What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Men, Talking, Mountain, Brunch, Mountain Man

Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."

- J. Frank Dobie

topic: Men, Fire, Mountain, Remington, Mountain Man

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

- Jeff Foxworthy

topic: Redneck, Might, Grades, Six Packs, Fridges

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

- William Matthews

topic: Teacher, Men, Self, Mountain Man, Sunny Side