The only thing better than mountains is the mountains. Quotes about mountains. Quotes about mountains and mountaineering

The collection includes quotes about mountains, about the path to the top, etc.:

I love mountains - they are more honest than people...
I can move mountains because I know you believe in me.
“You walk along the ridge of a mountain, any impulse of faith knocks you off your feet, but at the same time this is your strength.” Ango (Why Brazil)
The higher you go up the mountain, the harder it is to go
There is neither honesty nor deceit in the mountains. They are simply dangerous. Reinhold Messner
A person is a complete picture, you can not like something in it, like the way mountains or rivers are depicted, you can love something specific in it. But it must be perceived as a whole, in its entirety. Aurelius

They say that if these mountains were made by the Swiss, they would be much flatter. Paul Theroux (about the Alps)
Have you ever heard an avalanche roar in the mountains? Just after the avalanche rumbles off, absolute Silence comes. You stop understanding where you are - that’s how she is one hundred percent. Just Very Quiet... Haruki Murakami (Sheep Hunt)
Mountains are good. When you are here, everything bad remains below, and your soul becomes so light. (Climber)
The snowy mountains are beautiful. All the dirty and unpleasant things of the whole world are washed away by the beautiful whiteness.
Mountains build character, give a Spartan upbringing and, of course, teach you to understand people. Yuri Moiseev
I woke up early in the morning and thought: If I get up, I’ll move mountains. Turned on the other side... Why interfere with nature, let them stand...
If men, for the sake of women, would move all the mountains they promised, our world would already be a continuous plain...
Elevated temperatures combined with mountain air work evil wonders on the human mind. Max Fry (Big Cart)
Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly. (interesting phrase about mountains and life)
No one forbids you to consider yourself the king of the mountain, but please know your mountain. Watari Wataru
Remember: they don’t die in the mountains, they simply don’t live there.
I don’t like it when mountains are close: they always block the view, never change and do nothing, they just hang over my head. Who needs this? David Lawrence
You climb because you climb. Edmund Hillary
My father believed that a walk in the mountains was equivalent to going to church. Aldous Huxley
The only things better than mountains are mountains that you have never been to before. Vladimir Vysotsky
Love is like a rare flower that grows at the very top of the mountain and requires great courage to receive it.
You don’t need to adore me, you need to believe in me. And then I will move mountains! Maxim Averin
Lies have no place in the mountains. The masks of deception are shattered by their stony character. (Climber)
People climb to the top of a mountain not to see the sky, but to see the plain. Jason Evangelou
No matter how high the mountain is, any slope can become a path.
It is impossible to evaluate in hard currency the feeling of freedom and timelessness that the mountains give you when you stand on a high spur under a flawless blue April sky and look around. Jonathan Coe (Before the Rain Falls)

For mom with a mountain, for dad with a wall, for a friend with a brick, and for yourself with yourself!
Children should cry, and mothers should calm them down - not the other way around. That is why mothers move mountains so that their children do not see their tears.
If you love me, I can move mountains. And if not, then the neck. (cool saying about mountains)
Nature created mountains to punish people when she wanted to humiliate them. Pascal Brückner (Beauty Thieves)

In life, a person feels like a hostage to haste and vanity. He constantly yearns for freedom and tries to find out if it even exists. There is freedom, and it lives in the mountains. Mountains are the place where you can “float in the clouds”; you can admire them ad infinitum. Many famous philosophers and writers were partial to mountains; they specially came to the mountain slopes and admired the indescribable landscapes, they inspired them to create.

Many people rack their brains for a long time about where is the best place to spend their vacation. The majority still prefer the sea coast, but in the end it turns out that after a vacation they have to rest again. Oddly enough, this is how it turns out, because sea resorts There will be essentially the same bustle as in megacities, with the only difference being that on the coast the landscapes will be more beautiful and the climate cleaner. Whether it's the mountains... A vacation in the mountains is an unforgettable time when you can enjoy true freedom and real beauty. Even on the most crowded mountain resorts, tourists do not interfere with each other and can really relax.

The mountains not only provide a wonderful holiday, but also test human qualities. They test tourists for courage and endurance. Mountains teach you to achieve your goals. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking at its top, it seems to a person that it is impossible to climb there, however, interest and perseverance help him rise. Step by step, a person overcomes obstacles and conquers heights. Climbing a mountain, like nothing else, inspires new feats, gives confidence and fills with self-confidence.

Quotes and sayings

With enough determination, any idiot can climb this mountain,” Hall noted. “But the trick is to get back down alive.” (Jon Krakauer).

Reaching a goal in the mountains means not only climbing to the top, but also going down.

Lies have no place in the mountains. The masks of deception are shattered by their stony character.

Mountain air cleanses the body not only of various ailments, but also of lies.

Everyone should know their place in life.

Mountains are good. When you are here, everything bad remains below, and your soul becomes so light.

If you want to cleanse yourself, go to the mountains.

Mountains are not a place where you can trust your life to others! This is the place where you can lose it!

In the mountains, human life belongs to nature and insurers.

The snowy mountains are beautiful. All the dirty and unpleasant things of the whole world are washed away by the beautiful whiteness.

Snow-capped mountain peaks are the purest and brightest things on earth; it’s not for nothing that they are closest to heaven.

In the mountains, special bonds arise between people. That's why I'm drawn to them so irresistibly (Bear Grylls).

In the mountains, the strong and the weak will unite, and there they will learn to help each other.

A man is looking for a man in the mountains. Friendship, joint struggle, the joy of the victory of the rational will of man over the blind forces of nature. Without friendship, without friends there is no mountaineering. Even contemplation of the great beauty of the mountains can only be complete when a friend is next to you (Yakov Arkin).

Mountains are perfect place, where you can test the strength of friendship.

You shouldn't spit against the wind in the mountains.
- Why?
- Get hit in the forehead with an icicle!

In life, everything returns according to the boomerang law, the mountains can prove it.

Have you ever heard an avalanche roar in the mountains? Just after the avalanche rumbles off, absolute silence comes. You stop understanding where you are - that’s how she is one hundred percent. It's just very quiet... (Haruki Murakami).

Mountain silence compared to the noise of big cities seems unreal, nevertheless, it exists.

Aphorisms

To find out if a mountain is high, you don't have to climb it.

There are many ways to find out something; you don’t have to check every fact yourself.

Nature created mountains to punish people when she wanted to humiliate them.

Those who do not want to be humiliated are the ones who rise to the top of the mountain.

The mountains call those whose souls are their height.

Mountains are conquered by the strongest, cowards are simply afraid of them.

The man sitting on the top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.

All achievements are achieved only through one’s own labor.

And high mountains cannot hold back the clouds.

There are things in life that no one can change.

While smart people go around mountains, others move them away.

Everyone has their own ways to achieve their goals, some will take longer, but along the right path, while others will not reach it at all, even on the shortest path.

Mountains build character, give a Spartan upbringing and, of course, teach you to understand people.

In the mountains, people often need help, so if you want to check on someone, you have a direct route to the mountains.

The mountain's dream is to fly;
An impossible flight
But in the form of a cloud
Her dream floats.

All dreams have their expression.

The higher you go up the mountain, the harder it is to walk.

The last steps on the path to victory are always the most difficult.

Love is like a rare flower that grows at the very top of the mountain and requires great courage to receive it.

Just as not everyone has the courage to take a flower from the top of a mountain, so noteveryone has the courage to surrender to love.

Children should cry, and mothers should calm them down - not the other way around. That is why mothers move mountains so that their children do not see their tears.

There is nothing worse: when a child sees his mother’s tears, he then simply stops believing in happiness and goodness.

Statuses

If you love me, I can move mountains. And if not, then the neck.

When a person feels that he is loved, he is ready for any feats, if he is unnecessary, then for any crimes...)

Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.

In youth it seems that old age is still far away, in old age it seems that you have never lived, time has flown by so quickly.

I can move mountains because I know you believe in me.

Faith in a person works wonders.

No matter how high the mountain is, any slope can become a path.

You can find a way out of any situation if you have the will.

Remember: they don’t die in the mountains, they simply don’t live there.

You need to live not where it is beautiful, but where the conditions are suitable for life.

If men, for the sake of women, would move all the mountains they promised, our world would already be a continuous plain...

Apparently, men don’t want to destroy the mountain beauty...

For mom with a mountain, for dad with a wall, for a friend with a brick, and for yourself with yourself!!!

If you value your loved ones, then you are ready to stand up for them at any cost!

I woke up early in the morning and thought: If I get up, I’ll move mountains. Turned on the other side... Why interfere with nature, let them stand...

You could just admit your laziness...)

The only things better than mountains are mountains that you have never been to before.

Anyone who has been to the mountains at least once will definitely want to see them again.

Everyone wants to live on the top of a mountain, not realizing that true happiness awaits him on the way down... If you fly up to the heavens, falling is scary and painful, if you climb to the top of a mountain, there is a chance you won’t slide far... But we often fly up from happiness...

You need to appreciate what you have, perhaps this is true happiness.

Mountains are an incredibly beautiful creation of nature. In the mountains, a person feels freedom and learns to overcome all obstacles on the path of life.

For many years now I have been collecting interesting quotes from travelers, climbers, and researchers on outdoor topics.

All this is mostly accumulated “on the table”, although sometimes it finds use.

So, for example, we made packaging for ours with some quotes from my collection.

But still, the bulk lies as “dead weight” and does not work, although many quotes, as the quintessence of the experience and views on life of people who are great and have first-hand knowledge of issues of travel, mountaineering, human interaction with wild nature and mountains, can be useful and interesting to many.

Some quotes can make you smile with their naivety, for example, I liked Maurice Herzog’s statement about Annapurna, and I took it to my collection. Words about the mountain were spoken even before the expedition to this eight-thousander began; in Russian translation they sound like this:

“As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and is therefore of only limited sporting interest.”© Maurice Herzog

It is difficult to agree with this statement now, knowing that Annapurna is one of the most difficult and dangerous eight-thousanders on the planet.

Some quotes bear the imprint of an era, are a product of their time and personify the development and ideas of society, which we can look at through the prism of achievements known to us. As an example, an openly racist quote from Robert Peary

“One intelligent white man should be at the head, two whites, invited to the expedition because of their courage, determination, physical endurance and devotion to the leader, should form the hands, and the dog drivers and others local residents– body and legs of the expedition. For the peace of mind of men, it is necessary to take women on the trip; besides this, they are in many respects as useful as men, and in strength and endurance they are often almost equal to them.”

But I think the thoughts expressed by great travelers, climbers and investigators on issues of preparation, organization and safety are of particular value. Very often, one apt and strong phrase uttered by a distinguished person can give much more to understanding the essence of the issue than voluminous articles and verbose explanations.

My favorite quote of these comes from Roald Amundsen and goes:

“An expedition is preparation”

In just three words, the great polar explorer was able to express the main success of any business.

Quotes about mountains and mountaineering

“In the mountains you need to depend only on yourself, on your own strength, so expecting that someone will help at high altitude is immoral.” © Anatoly Bukreev

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambitions, they are temples where I practice my religion.” © Anatoly Bukreev

“The mountains have the power to call us to their lands, this is no longer a passion, this is my destiny...” © Anatoly Bukreev

“Only mountains can be better than mountains,
Which I haven’t been to before.”

“Every person needs something exceptional in an era when money can have everything.” © Reinhold Messner

“A person learns through defeats, not victories, as it may seem. To correctly assess the situation, you need to know your limit and it can only be determined in practice. I have failed on thirteen 8000m peaks and I want to be remembered as the climber who has failed the most. I wasn't interested in records. If I had not failed at Dhaulagiri, Makalu and Lhotse at one time, I would have died long ago. I love challenges, but I know how to retreat in time.” © Reinhold Messner

“If you go to mountains where there is no danger, you are not a real mountaineer.” © Reinhold Messner

“Mountaineering is an archaic world, devoid of rules, and that is why the cost of error here is very high. The anarchy that reigns all around forces the climber to be responsible for his own life. Every difficult climb is mortally dangerous, and in this sense, mountaineering is a deeply selfish activity.” © Reinhold Messner

“Nor was I of the opinion that a climber who dies while climbing automatically becomes a hero. The death of a climber is a tragedy. No more no less. And the only thing that can be done for the victims is to help their loved ones.” © Reinhold Messner

“For a person suffering from stress, lost in an expanding civilization, the mountains have become a kind of “play space” in which he can enrich himself with experiences and experiences that are not available to him in everyday life. Everyday life. Game space, game, rules of the game. Owning them is the only condition for fully enjoying the exciting lifestyle: mountaineering.” © Reinhold Messner

“Only climbers know how much willpower and courage it takes to retreat where there is at least something that would justify moving up.” © Reinhold Messner

"I am a happy man. I had a dream and it came true, and that doesn’t happen very often to a person. Climbing Everest - my people call it Chomolungma - was the deepest desire of my whole life. Seven times I got down to business; I failed and started again, again and again, not with the feeling of bitterness that drives a soldier against the enemy, but with love, like a child climbing onto its mother’s lap.” © Tenzing Norgay

“I hate grumbling and fighting over trifles when we're talking about about great things. When people go to the mountains, they should forget about molehills. Whoever goes for a big job must have a big soul" © Tenzing Norgay

“For the opportunity to go to Everest, I would accept any job, from a dishwasher to a Yeti driver.” © Tenzing Norgay

“... I trained hard, trying to regain my shape. I got up early in the morning, loaded my backpack with stones, and took long walks in the hills around the city - this was my routine for a number of years before large expeditions. I didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, and avoided partying, which I usually love very much. And all this time I was thinking, planning, speculating how my seventh trip to Everest would go. “This time you have to conquer the peak,” I told myself, “Succeed or perish...” © Tenzing Norgay

“Future generations will ask: “Who were the first people to reach the top of the world?” And I would like the answer to be one that I don’t have to be ashamed of. Everest: highest point not just one country, but the whole world. It was taken by the people of the East and the West together. It belongs to us all. And I also want to belong to everyone, to be a brother to all people...” © Tenzing Norgay

“The peak cannot be conquered. You stand on it for a few minutes, and then the wind sweeps away your traces.” © Arlene Bloom

“You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away." © Arlene Blum

“For most people, mountains are something majestic, but far from everyday life, that is, ideal harmony.” © Ueli Steck

“I am often scared, although no one believes it. But when is a person not afraid? When he doesn’t know something or overestimates his abilities. Fortunately, such a thing - for me to overestimate myself - did not happen to me...” © Ueli Steck

“First of all, love the mountains. You need to know the mountains, respect them and not think that you will throw your hats at them. You need to be on friendly terms with mountains. Be it a 1b category peak or a route highest category." © Vladimir Shataev

“I can look up at the mountain for hours. It may seem strange, but I am talking to the mountain. I’m trying to understand whether she’s waiting for me or not, whether she’ll let me in or not.” © Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

“Sometimes I think that’s why I go to the mountains, to understand how precious gray everyday life is for me. Returning to experience the taste of a cup of hot tea after days of thirst, sleep after many sleepless nights, meeting friends after a long solitude, silence after hours spent in a terrible storm.” © Wanda Rutkevich

“I’m not going to conquer the mountains - they are as much a part of the world as people. I’m conquering myself.” © Wanda Rutkevich

“Mountains are a way, but the goal is the person himself. The ultimate meaning is not to reach mountain peaks, but to improve man. Climbing takes on meaning only if the person remains the focus of attention.” © Walter Bonnati

“I think every climber has many reasons to climb the Matterhorn. But everyone has the same main reason: to climb the Matterhorn” © Gaston Rebbufa

“By rising to the top, a person elevates himself and his soul, his heart and his dream. As far as the eye can see, a country of snow and rocks stretches out before him in silence and mystery. Mountains are a special world, they form part of the planet, like a mysterious, isolated kingdom, where the symbol of life is will and love" © Gaston Rebbufa

“Tien Shan is not a place for mountaineering fun!” © Gottfried Merzbacher

“A woman is the main danger for a climber. We all know this undiligent truth." © Maurice Herzog

“Having crossed the limits of our strength, having learned the boundaries of the human world, we realized the true greatness of Man” © Maurice Herzog

“No victory could justify deliberately gambling with human lives.” © Maurice Herzog

“As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and is therefore of only limited sporting interest.” © Maurice Herzog 1950

“I live as if in a dream. Death is near, I feel it. What a wonderful death for a climber! How it harmonizes with the noble passion that rules our souls! I am grateful to the peak for making it so beautiful today. Its silence resembles the grandeur of a cathedral. I don't suffer or worry at all. My peace of mind is terrible." © Maurice Herzog June 4, 1950.

“From time to time, at least for cheerfulness, it is useful to look up. On the contrary, it is not recommended to look down, since the sight of these terrifying abysses can shake the fortitude of any optimist.” © Maurice Herzog

“The mountains call those whose souls are their height!” © V.L. Belilovsky

“A good climber should not only be healthy, he should be resourceful and cunning, guided by one thought - to survive...” © Vitaly Gorelik

“My partners had to be strong, humble, fast and always optimistic.” © Simone Moro

“Accidents and risk are part of our life. In love, work, sports, etc. we take risks every day throughout our lives. Climbing mountains is, of course, much riskier than working in an office, but I am not attracted to a safe life instead of a deep and fulfilling one... I would rather be happy every day of my 36 years than to be happy on Sundays for 80 years...” © Simone Moro

“It’s important to me to come back safe and sound, whether I win or lose, although that term doesn’t really apply to those coming down from above.” © Simone Moro

“Even if I have to use it, I hate climbing with oxygen. These are dishonest and unsportsmanlike climbs, and that’s why I’m going back to those mountains where I climbed with oxygen...” © Simone Moro

“Easy, fast style and a small team - that’s what I love about climbing. Why? This is a more sporting and fair game between the climber and the mountain. I respect, but I don’t like, attacking peaks with big teams...” © Simone Moro

“An ice ax and crampons instead of claws, boots and clothing complement the fur and fat, a tent instead of a cave or hole. And oxygen is a change in nature itself, the environment... And one more comparison - about divers. Can you dive 200 meters without scuba gear? That's right - no. And no one can, however, everyone admits that this is ABSOLUTELY different types sports. But for some reason everyone is sure about mountaineering that there is no big difference. Paradox?" © Denis Urubko

“In general, all the most difficult moments in the mountains, as in ordinary life, occur in consciousness, in overcoming oneself and in relationships between people. Frost, wind, height - all these are just attributes, the specifics of the sport, which is only a background for learning about yourself and your friends. Everything “extreme” changes and is forgotten, but what remains is experience and feelings.” © Denis Urubko

“We will all be THERE... but I want to push back the date of departure to “as far as possible.” And to do this, you need to control every step, act correctly, and learn from the masters.” © Denis Urubko

“I believe that mountaineering should be fun, even when the going gets tough, and even when someone has to pay for the challenge. After all, if we are willing to pay such a price, then mountaineering really brings pleasure.” © Chris Bonington

“Society is very unfair to female climbers and mountaineering mothers. There is no such attitude towards male climbers who risk their lives in the mountains, leaving their families at home - and the public often condemns mothers who want to climb. In my opinion, both parents are equally important for a child, and therefore I see no difference whether the father or mother is a mountaineer!” © Edurne Pasaban

“Turning around in a situation where, it would seem, there is nothing particularly dangerous is sometimes a heroic act. Such feats are only for you. Do them. Turn back, but get the opportunity to come back here again. No mountain is worth a single pinky fingernail!” © Nikolay Totmyanin

"Mountains! Their snow-white, dazzling domes against the backdrop of unimaginably blue and deep blue - aren’t they a symbol of the human dream, the call of which has been disturbing daring souls for centuries? And isn’t each of us given his own height in his chosen task?” © Mikhail Turkevich

“The higher and more difficult the peak, the more friends you meet on its slopes, no matter in what area globe she was not there." © Mikhail Turkevich

“We stood on the highest peak on the planet. We climbed this high, overcoming frost and wind, lack of oxygen and low pressure. We climbed here, risking every minute to fall, to fall under a rockfall, under an avalanche. We gave our comrades the last sip of water that was so coveted here, we conceded the most to each other in the tents. comfortable spot, warmed our neighbor in the bivouac with their warmth, joked and sang songs when the wind tried to tear the tents together with us into the abyss... For the sake of such moments, for the sake of the opportunity to test yourself, get to know your friends better, reach the limit of the possible and look beyond this limit - for the sake of all this It's worth going to the mountains." © Mikhail Turkevich

“Stars the size of fists pulsated above us. They broke down and fell to the ground towards us. Fantastic starfall! The moon hung just above your head, and it seemed very easy to reach it with your hand..." © Mikhail Turkevich

“What a pleasure it is to contemplate the majestic mountain ranges and be above the clouds! What else in the world can be so whole, so complete, as climbing mountains.” © Konrad Gesner

“There is the concept of front-line brotherhood, there is also the concept of mountaineering brotherhood. This is true. I have a lot of teaching practice. When the newcomers begin to leave after a 20-day stay in the mountain camp, they literally leave in tears. Why? People being in tough climatic conditions United by a common idea, they communicate and solve a common problem. Help, mutual assistance, just being together - unites people to such an extent that the phenomenon is called brotherhood. Like in a war, when in the most difficult conditions people united, doing a significant thing, winning, losing, fighting, dying, etc.

This is an integral part of mountaineering, it is good and pleasing. I am happy that I know all the people that mountaineering has given me. That we were united by an idea. Although it was in different years, different areas, we haven’t met for a long time, but you can’t throw out what happened from your destiny.” © Sergey Bogomolov

“When you stand at the top, especially if it’s the top of an eight-thousander, mountains stretch in all directions as far as the eye can see. It seems that the whole world is covered eternal snows ridges and nothing else. But we know that this is not so. There, further - seas and oceans, forests and gardens, beautiful cities... That's how it is in my life. Mountaineering is a favorite thing, a profession, but besides it there is family and friends, songs and books, theaters and exhibitions. All this is also very interesting and dear to me. All this is my life." © Sergey Bershov

“Always keep a clear head and be prepared to work in any conditions and face any surprises. To do this, you need to prepare comprehensively and constantly. And then you can enjoy the beauty of the mountains and enjoy the climb itself.” © Evgeny Vinogradsky

“I can’t give you a new answer why people strive for the mountains. Most people still go just to get to the top.” © Edmund Hillary

“...A person’s struggle with the peak goes beyond the scope of mountaineering in its purely sporting sense. In my eyes, she is a symbol of man's struggle with the forces of nature; it clearly expresses the continuity of this difficult battle and the unity of all who took part in it. …Shortly after our return from Everest, some of us had to talk to a group of students. One of them asked me: “What is the point of climbing Everest? Were you financially interested or was this just some kind of madness?” © John Hunt

“Long attempts to conquer a difficult peak can be compared to a relay race, where each team member, having completed his part of the path, passes the baton to the next one until the entire distance is completed.” © John Hunt

“As long as the climber adapts to the mountain, it is mountaineering. When he begins to adapt the mountain for his purposes, it construction works." © John Hunt

“I love peaks as individuals, as equal parts of a larger whole.” © Herbert Tichy

“The risk must always be justified in some way.” © Vitaly Abalakov

“Mountaineering is a complex and dangerous multifaceted human activity. A rare combination of sophisticated mental and physical work in a very challenging environment." © Vitaly Abalakov

“What does mountaineering give to an individual? - asked a prominent Western mountaineer half a century ago and answered: - It returns us to nature, that element with which most of us have lost direct contact. The upward striving, boundless, elemental - doesn’t it carry us, as if on magical wings, somewhere far from the usual level, and with it from ordinary thoughts?” © Evgeniy Abalakov

“Now sparkling, joyful, calling, now menacing and angry, challenging to single combat, now mysterious, hiding itself with an elusive curtain and only for a moment revealing itself with wonderful fantastic visions of a special world, the harsh, beautiful, eternally calling element of mountain peaks.” © Evgeniy Abalakov

“You can be the greatest climber in the world and at the same time be a selfish asshole who doesn't care about his family and friends. Or you may be someone who tries to learn something from the rivers and mountains, who becomes a better person when they return. I'm trying to be that person." © Doug Ammons.

“Climbing for me is one of the forms of knowledge that inspires me, helps me contrast my inner world with nature. It is a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there is no distraction or expectation. This is an intuitive state of being, something that gives me the opportunity to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.” © Lynn Hill

“The colors of mountain sunsets are bright and unique - sometimes scarlet, purple, crimson and crimson, sometimes full of royal splendor, when it seems that half the sky is filled with molten gold.” © Konstantin Rototaev

“Mountaineering begins where the paths end, and does not end even at the top, because it’s not enough to go up, you also have to go down. On the descent, the climber is often faced with difficult trials.” © Nikolay Tikhonov

The path to the top is open to anyone

Who loves heights fearlessly

Where the ice ax rings and where the heart rings

There the friendship of the brave is born!

“...it is important how you climb, not where you climb. You know, many years ago in Yosemite we realized that there was nothing up there. You climb out, and there are stones and a path down. Therefore, even then it became clear that what matters is not where you climbed, but how you did it! And it is precisely this process of “how?” compromised by the unrestrained use of bolts. Or take Everest for example. The most terrifying example of a “dead end” in mountaineering development! Dozens of almost permanently installed aluminum stairs, kilometers of railings... Having climbed up, you have climbed “something”, but not the Top of the World - Everest.” © Yvon Chainard

“What matters is what you do here and now. It is important to climb the route having fun and it is not at all important to leave a mark for centuries. Who needs it, this trace of yours on this rock wall that is not needed by humanity? © Yvon Chainard

“What space! What enchanting beauty there is in all these snow giants towering into the sky! What a variety of colors and tones in these fabulous cliffs of an endless chain of mountains, lost somewhere far, far away. How deeply all this touches the soul and heart of a person! He is overcome by such a feeling of delight, which is beyond human power to describe.” © Sergey Kirov

“The only thing I’m afraid of in the mountains is bad weather. This is the only thing in the mountains that does not depend on us.” © Junko Tabei

“We have to go to the mountain. It’s difficult, but we have to meet them halfway; the mountain itself will not come to the base camp.” © Vladislav Terzyul

“There at the height, closer to God, a person becomes purer and nobler” © Vladislav Terzyul

“Mountains, mountains! What kind of magnetism is hidden in you! What a symbol of tranquility is contained in each sparkling peak! The bravest legends are born near the mountains. The most humane words come from the snowy heights. Some people are afraid of mountains and claim that mountains choke them. Aren’t these people afraid of big things?” © Nicholas Roerich

“The mountains are the only place where I can relax.” © Igor Tamm

“Untouched nature brings incomparable spiritual peace. Added to this is the deep satisfaction of overcoming obstacles. In the mountains, friendships with comrades, cemented by dangers, are born and remain for life.” © Igor Tamm

“High-altitude mountaineering is the sport closest to astronautics” © Terman Titov

“Everest is the highest pole of the earth. Getting to the top on foot, relying on my own legs and the power of my mind, turned out to be only slightly easier than landing a man on the moon. Only 16 years separated these two events.” ©

F.M. Sveshnikov

“Mountaineering is a sport of difficult decisions. In the mountains you cannot hide behind empty words; here only action is valued. A person in mountaineering is worth exactly as much as he really is.” © F.M. Sveshnikov

“At any age, you must continue to dream. You must try to make dreams come true. I know well that if you have a strong heart and take one small step after another, you will reach the top of the world.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“Believe in yourself in the face of death. Fear won't do anything to you. It doesn't matter if you live or die when your heart beats faster than 100 beats per minute. Fears go away when you just start climbing.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“I realized very early that someone who goes with a strong partner may never experience the very essence of mountaineering, and in any case will receive only part of the emotions from climbing... In the end, he is only a follower... if he leads, he takes takes responsibility for the success of the enterprise, then something more opens up for him... I see no reason why women could not lead in serious ascents... but I also realize that if a woman takes on this role, then the participation of men in the project cannot out of the question." © Miriam O'Brien Underhill

“Whoever does not get confused in the snowy mountains will not be afraid in battle.” This is the slogan of the Soviet climber. Cowardice is a lack of confidence in oneself, in one’s knowledge. Such qualities as caution, attentiveness, accuracy, and sometimes slowness due to careful control of the path, security and self-preservation should not be confused with cowardice.
Brave is considered to be the one who, having weighed all the difficulties and prepared accordingly to overcome them, decisively and energetically fights for the implementation of the task, who does not get lost in difficult times; whoever calmly and patiently seeks the path to victory will always find it...” © Physical training of climbers I. Yukhin, 1939.

“The only opportunity to compensate for my inferiority, my lack of confidence in my own abilities, was to practice mountaineering. Surrendering myself completely to this was my only salvation. Now the natural course of events in my life was to conquer one peak after another - first in Japan, and then abroad.” © Naomi Uemura

“Mountaineering is more of a mental sport than a physical one. If you really really want to do something, what's a little more pain for you? Just go with it." © Mark Inglis

“The call of the high mountains... Perhaps this is part of man’s eternal quest, a certain excess of that vital energy that moves humanity from century to century in its attempt to always achieve more and more high peak human aspirations?.. Even if the conquest of Everest becomes an ordinary event, there will always be more high Everests; Even if in the distant future our Earth becomes a place without secrets, there will always be other peaks to climb and other worlds to explore. For those willing to venture fearlessly into uncharted seas and the unconquered peaks of human endeavor, there will never be a shortage of adventure for mind and body.” © Jawaharlal Nehru

“Let them not, however, think that climbing highest peaks- just hard, tedious work. There are no words to describe the impression made by these giants, or to convey the feeling of a climber who finds himself on the verge of a dead kingdom, where the violent wind, the scorching sun and the merciless frost, as well as the thinness of the air, make all life impossible.” © Evans Charles, Inviolable Kanchenjunga, M., Physical Education and Sports, 1961

“What made both man and animal strive for these barren heights? Dr. James Chapin, who spent many years studying the birds of the Congo, once found the skeleton of the Hamlin's monkey on the top of Karisimbi, many miles from its native forests. And recently I read an interesting article about a pack of hyena dogs that were seen in the Kilimanjaro glaciers, at an altitude of almost twenty thousand feet. Perhaps man is not the only creature in this world who climbs a mountain just because it stands in front of him.” © George Schaller Year under the sign of the gorilla. M., Mysl, 1968.

“...When I crossed the ridge into Georgia, I abandoned the cart and began to ride a horse: I climbed the snowy mountain (Krestovaya) to the very top, which is not at all easy; From there you can see half of Georgia as if on a silver platter, and, really, I don’t undertake to explain or describe this amazing feeling; for me Mountain air– balm; the blues be damned, the heart is beating, the chest is breathing high - nothing is needed at this moment; I could sit and watch like that for the rest of my life.” © Mikhail Lermontov

“I am far from self-praise, far from ambition and competition, I just want to say that mountaineering should be considered as a beautiful game in which every accident is either a mistake or carelessness, and death is a real tragedy. In order to avoid a demonstration of heroism, I, like most of us, believe that it is better to wait than to rush and take risks, it is better to slow down than to be out of breath, it is better to sing than to shout...” © Jean Franco “Makalu”

“We have entered into a grandiose and wonderful battle with nature, and we are putting all our physical, mental and moral strength into achieving victory. In a few weeks the battle, which took place in an atmosphere of passionate intensity and brotherly friendship, raised us above human mediocrity." © Jean Franco “The Battle of Joan”

“When you look from the height of Pobeda Peak, it seems that the other peaks are squatting.” © Lyudmila Agranovskaya

“Mountains are made to show a person what a dream can look like..” © Yuri Vizbor

“Life is a continuous ascent along an untrodden path that winds along the mountain slopes... I stand on a white mountain and look into the blue distance of the roads traveled. Ahead rises a peak under a blue hat of snow. If I manage to climb it, I will see new distances..." © A. Keshokov story View from the White Mountain

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet...” © William Blake

“Something inside me kills my interest in playing at low limits. For me, it's either a high stake or nothing. And it's eating me up." © Jerzy Kukuczka

“Mountains are a place where you can exchange life for endless bliss.” © Milarepa Shepa Dorje

“Mountaineering in my life was not just a sport that gave me a good mood. This is a worldview that affirms simple truths, glorifying good things: courage and comradeship, the desire to learn and the desire to help, devotion to purpose, the meaning and joy of daring, sensitivity and amazing courage.” © Boris Delaunay

“Loving means not looking at each other, but looking together in the same direction. Comrades are only those who, holding on to the same rope, climb a mountain peak with common efforts and in this find their closeness.” © Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Winter high altitude climbing is a sophisticated way of suffering in the mountains.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“Winter expeditions are the only mountaineering without the struggle of “stars”, rivalry, competition with each other. The mountain in winter is so difficult that everyone rallies for a common goal in an atmosphere of partnership, mutual assistance and goodwill. This atmosphere has now been preserved only in speleology and in winter Himalayan ascents. This is no longer possible to find in the summer in alpine ascents.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The essence of winter Himalayan ascents is overcoming your own pain caused by cold, discomfort and other reasons. You can believe me, it's true. I believe that winter Himalayan ascents have little in common with the essence of real mountaineering, which begins where conventional tourism ends, and a person is forced to overcome technical difficulties with the help of his hands. In winter you cannot take off your mittens, so there is no question of difficult technical climbs. The combination of very low temperatures and 8000 m makes true mountaineering impossible.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The maxim that there is either only good things about the deceased, or nothing, plays an extremely negative role in understanding the disaster that occurred. The unembellished truth of what happened is the last gift of the departed to the living. We often ignore it (the gift), supposedly for moral reasons. But this is really immoral.” © Igor Komarov

“Freeride is a martial art in which life is at stake.” © Igor Komarov

“Going first is a special job. Here you are alone with the wall. Your comrades are with you in spirit, but there is no one nearby. Only the rope pulls you down a lot, connecting you with the world of people, and the rock hangs above your head. Often the next section of the route seems impassable, and there is no longer confidence in success, and anxiety hangs over the wall like a cloud. Then, like a convenient shelf, you grab onto the thought: you’ve made up your mind, accepted the challenge - so drive away doubts, turn off everything extraneous from your consciousness, focus on the goal, you have to get through” © Vitaly Bodnik

“Victory in mountaineering generously gives a person the joy of victory over himself. And she also makes your teammate your brother, and this male brotherhood is stronger than granite" © Vitaly Bodnik

“Many people are afraid of mountains, but this is due to their ignorance. The unknown is always scary. The mountains are, of course, formidable, but they are not treacherous or malicious. Hurry to the mountains! A discovery awaits you pristine nature. Self-discovery awaits you." © Vasily Kovtun

“The Caucasus Mountains are much more beautiful, their peaks are pointed; the abysses separating the peaks from each other give the impression of immeasurable depth.” © Douglas Freshfield

“The strongest fear arises in those moments when you realize that you are still alive and well, but you are already finished... that is, the brain manages to fully realize that you have practically no chance of surviving.” © Valery Rozov

“I have no respect for people who rope walk using a harness. I don't really like the fact that if you fall you'll die, but that's part of what they call tightrope walking." © Philippe Petit

“The snow is hiding and waiting. Waiting for our mistake. One has only to cut the layer, maybe even shout loudly, and the slope will disappear from under one’s feet. We know how it happens: first a quiet crackling sound, then a rustling sound, and then a roar. Just a second. Before you have time to look back, you will be buried under many meters of cold and heavy snow, like cast iron.” © A. Kuznetsov “Below Svaneti”

“...From edge to edge, along the entire horizon, in glaciers and snow, there is the great Tien Shan system. It all burns with the golden-orange and red tones of sunset, and Khan Tengri floats above like a giant faceted ruby set in the dark turquoise sky.” © Semenov-Tien-Shansky.”

“The forces of untamed nature - wind, clouds, storm and cold - find their most powerful expression on mountaintops, endowing the heights with the aura of wild nature in its most extreme and undisturbed state.” © Bernbaum Edwin

“Snow is snow no matter where it falls, and avalanches speak the universal language of violence...” © Montgomery Otwater

“...After all, as long as there are mountains, there will be traces on their slopes, there will be notes on the tops... This is the law of man’s struggle with the mountains. And in everyone’s life, sooner or later there comes a moment when he must meet nature face to face and feel that man, even in small numbers, is stronger than it. Humanity has existed for twenty thousand generations, of which nineteen thousand eight hundred generations - ninety-nine percent - fought with nature without the help of electricity, machines and science. In today's generations there is still quite a bit of disturbing blood left from their ancestors. The word “feat” means an action that not everyone can accomplish. But those who go to the mountains, as a rule, do not think about the feat, dreaming only of enjoying the incomparable feeling of pioneers, they want to see entire countries lying at their feet under the clouds, so that the shadow of the hand stretches for hundreds of kilometers and the purple sky is towards them a little closer than to other people... And for a while, let the voices disappear from the whirlwind and leave people alone with the mountains. For mountains and people are a continuous battle.” © Evgeniy Iordanishvili

“I only know three real sports: bullfighting, mountaineering and auto racing. The rest of the sports are games.” © Ernest Hemingway

“In the struggle with the peak, in the pursuit of the immensity, a person wins, finds and affirms, first of all, himself. In the extreme tension of struggle, on the verge of death, the Universe disappears and ends next to us. Space, time, fear, suffering no longer exist. And then everything can be accessible. Like on the crest of a wave, when during a furious storm a strange, great calm suddenly reigns within us. This is not spiritual emptiness; on the contrary, it is the heat of the soul, its impulse and desire. And then we realize with confidence that there is something indestructible in us, a force that nothing can resist.” © Lucien Devi

“They don’t walk in the mountains with their feet, they walk in the mountains with their heads.” © folk wisdom

“A bad road is one from which a traveler will definitely fall, and his body cannot be found. A good road is one from which a traveler falls, but his corpse can be found and buried. And a beautiful road is one from which a traveler may not fall” © folk wisdom

“Remember, traveler, in the mountains you are like a tear on Allah’s eyelash.” © folk wisdom

“Everest is a bird that flew higher than other birds.”© folk wisdom

“The man at the very top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.” © Confucius

Quotes about travel, expeditions and wildlife

“An expedition is a preparation” © Amundsen Roald

“Willpower is the first and most important quality of a skilled researcher. Only by knowing how to control his will can he hope to overcome the difficulties that nature places in his path.” © Amundsen Roald

“What is still unknown to us on our planet puts some kind of pressure on the consciousness of most people. This unknown is something that man has not yet conquered, some constant proof of our powerlessness, some unpleasant challenge to mastery over nature.” © Amundsen Roald

“Forethought and caution are equally important: foresight is to notice difficulties in time, and caution is to prepare most thoroughly to meet them.” © Amundsen Roald

“It’s bad to linger around the same fire for a long time: your eyes get tired of looking at the same thing, your ears become deaf. We have to go. The turbidity does not stick in fast water..."© Ulukitkan

“When people ask me why I go on this or that trip, I usually answer: I don’t know, but that’s really true. After all, if I knew what awaited me, I would not have set off.” © Jacques Cousteau

"Only impossible missions succeed." © Jacques Cousteau

“It’s a dark, cold night, wrapped in a blanket, I sit motionless on the shore and listen to the right whales letting out fountains. They are very close. Although it is difficult to distinguish their massive forms in the dark, I know that they swim not far from the shore, sometimes touching the bottom in shallow water with their bellies. But they jump out about two hundred meters from me. Their huge bodies terrible noise collapse into the water. In between the splashes, the deep breaths of the whales can be heard: for me, this powerful choral concert is the most beautiful music in the ocean. This is how my first night in Patagonia goes..." © Philippe Cousteau

“I believe that there are neither heights nor depths that a person could not achieve with the help of Reason.” © John Hunt

“Polar night, you look like a woman, a delightful, beautiful woman with the noble features of an antique statue, but also with her marble coldness. On your high brow, clear as pure ether, there is not a trace of sympathy for the petty sorrows of the human race, on your pale beautiful cheeks - not a trace of feeling... I am exhausted by your cold beauty, I thirst for life, warmth, light! Let me return either as a winner or as a beggar - It doesn’t matter to me! But let me go back and start living again" © Fridtjof Nansen

“With our experience, we should agree that true wealth cannot be achieved with the help of an army, it cannot be won with the help of a sling or a bomb, which is capable of flying around the world fifteen times and hitting us, and not just our enemies, in the back of the head. True valuables are found on enemy soil and not in a bank. You can’t put them on scales and see them with the naked eye, because you have to look for them inside your own head. What is stored in the soul cannot be taken away.” © Thor Heirdal

“Borders? I haven't seen any. True, I heard that some people have them in their heads.” © Thor Heirdal

“Really, why make a fuss about something that’s been done? I never just remember the past. There is too much to do in the future! © Edmund Hillary

“Many of us in our youth try to prove to ourselves that we are capable of overcoming unusual situations. For me, such a situation was autonomous life in the forest. I soon realized that I could kill an animal or a bird, use mushrooms and berries, but why? Everything turned into a more difficult task: you need to shoot what you see, turn what you see into visible images. So I’ve been photographing nature all my life.” © Vadim Gippenreiter

“Romance is necessary in a person’s life. It is this that gives a person divine strength to travel beyond the ordinary.” © Fridtjof Nansen

“Victory awaits those who have everything in order, and this is called luck.” © Roald Amundsen

“Winter is not an enemy, it is a great helper, throwing bridges across the seas, covering the bare rocks of the mountains and smoothing out chasms. And as soon as the sleigh ride makes the trip possible, you are irresistibly drawn into the distance, new plans are born, and you just wait impatiently for the frost to get stronger.” © Knud Rasmussen

“...if water is more important than food, then hope for a person is more important and necessary than water.” © Alain Bombard

“Let us thank those who did not believe us! Without them we would never have known the joy of victory!” © Alain Bombard

“Victims of legendary shipwrecks who died prematurely, I know: it was not the sea that killed you, it was not hunger that killed you, it was not thirst that killed you! Rocking on the waves to the plaintive cries of the seagulls, you died of fear.” © Alain Bombard

“One intelligent white man should be at the head, two whites, invited to the expedition because of their courage, determination, physical endurance and loyalty to the leader, should form the arms, and dog drivers and other local residents should form the body and legs of the expedition. For the peace of mind of men, it is necessary to take women on the trip; besides this, they are in many respects as useful as men, and in strength and endurance they are often almost equal to them.” © Robert Peary

“The romance of distant travels, contemplation of the surrounding nature, immersion in it are combined in me with the desire for sports records” © Marina Galkina

“Travelling alone without any means of communication is an exciting thing. It is without means of communication, I emphasize. There is an undoubted share of risk in this and the thrill of sensations and fullness of life are guaranteed. Everything depends on you, on your strengths, your skills, your dexterity. You are given the right to choose any path, you have the final say. You feel real freedom. Only on such a journey do you completely break away from civilization, merge more closely with nature, understand your insignificance and defenselessness” © Marina Galkina

“Frankly speaking, one must be born a traveler, and one should venture into the distance only in the years of full strength” © Peter Kozlov

"The most favorite place both in Russia and in the world - this is Kamchatka. The nature there is unique. In general, I am more interested in traveling around the country than abroad....a person cannot love without knowing. All our lives we love the place where we grew up, because we absorbed it from childhood, grew up with these trees and this grass. Very few people know Russia - I discover it for myself every time.” © Yuri Senkevich

“Rivers are a gift to us. Water is a metaphor for the passage of time, and everyone has their place in the flow.” © Doug Ammons.

“In order to see the stars, every year you need to move further and further from home...” © Yuri Vizbor

“My worst enemy on the path to my goal is fear. I am a very cowardly person and, like all cowardly people, I strive to overcome my fear. Victory over fear makes me happy... I want to be stronger than my own fear, for this I look for danger again and again.” © Reinhold Messner

“I am Sisyphus, that all my life I can roll up my stone, that is, myself, without reaching the top, since there can be no top in knowing oneself.” © Reinhold Messner

“I don’t remember when I freed myself from religious feelings, I only know one thing: since then it has become more difficult for me to convince myself that I am not alone in the world, not abandoned.” © Reinhold Messner

“I am my own homeland, and my banner is my handkerchief” © Reinhold Messner

“Minimum superfluous, but vitally necessary – in double quantity, that is my motto” © Reinhold Messner

“I do everything with passion - except bureaucratic matters, which I hate” © Reinhold Messner

“Adventures give us joy. But joy, after all, is the purpose of life. We do not live to eat or make money. We eat and earn money so that we can be happy. This is the meaning of life, and this is what it is given for.” © George Mallory

“I traveled around the world to ski. Fly with the wind. Laugh with the gods." © Iyuchiro Miuro

“People give up when it’s hard, dogs give up when they die.” © Naomi Uemura

“Deep diving is always solo, it’s comparable to climbing eight-thousanders and all responsibility lies only with you. Complete self-sufficiency." © Pascal Bernabe

“Traveling has been, is and will be. And in a hundred years, and in two hundred, and in a thousand. They will change - they will become different, only the word will remain the same. You can no longer be like Miklouho-Maclay or Sedov. Continents and islands are not being discovered now. You discover your spirituality." © Fedor Konyukhov

“For a true traveler there is only one goal - to overcome difficulties. And there is only one desire - to break through the horizon." © Nick Tendi

"Why do people love wild places? For the sake of the mountains? They may not exist. For the sake of forests, lakes and rivers? But it could be a desert, and people would still love it. The desert, the monotonous ocean, the untouched snowy plains of the north, all the deserted expanses, no matter how dull they may be - the only places in the land where freedom dwells." © Rockwell Kent

“The sparkling immaculate whiteness of the high mountain snows, untouched and perhaps unattainable; the beauty of the mountains, covered with a foggy haze, because of which you cannot distinguish whether it is earth or a cloud; distant, clear, impassive mountains - all this symbolizes the highest aspirations of the spirit. The universe appears to people in all its glory and grandeur, they are seized with anxiety, the thirst for adventure characteristic of their ancestors awakens in them, and they leave... It is not at all a conscious choice that forces people to exchange comfort and safety for adventure and adversity - most likely, there is an impulse more active here deeper and stronger than consciousness and reason" © Rockwell Kent

“Speleology requires a lot of patience, and not impotent patience, but the persistence of long-term effort.” © Norbert Casteret

“A climber can study the mountain of his dreams, looking at it through binoculars, and with his eyes outline the route of ascent among the paths and rocks. The caver, when making assumptions, is almost always mistaken due to surprises and incredible difficulties. underworld. Alas! All his hypotheses are shattered when faced with insurmountable obstacles. Collapses of vaults, impassable cracks, dead ends, lakes, siphons every now and then mercilessly stop the speleologist on his path.” © Norbert Casteret

“It’s uncomfortable underground. Everything is harsh, sometimes ominous, always majestic and full of threats. Of course, this is why humans and animals instinctively avoid and fear the underworld. Only a few adapt to this realm of death and develop an interest, even passion, in exploring it. These are speleologists." © Norbert Casteret

“Abyss, you almost destroyed me and, perhaps, you will yet become my grave! But how many sublime moments of happiness you gave me among all the suffering! Here I learned the delight of searching and the intoxication of discovery.” © Michel Cifr

"On geographical maps there are no longer vast white patches, nor are virgin lands to be found. Only three areas are still of interest for research: space, but only a select few have access there, then the ocean, which provides limitless space for scientists, and, finally, the bowels of the earth with its caves, grottoes and abysses. This is my world." © Michel Cifr

“For a speleologist, the most sticky, viscous, unsteady clay that covers everything with its layer is never just dirt, but always remains a noble substance with which he is completely saturated, which covers him from head to toe, and sometimes turns him into ice, but which ultimately In fact, it is so inevitable and familiar that it becomes, as it were, a classic, characteristic feature of caves. All smeared with clay, this time, let’s say, just mud, doesn’t the speleologist have the right to proudly say, like Cyrano de Bergerac: “I am morally elegant!” © Norbert Casteret

“All extreme activity is a tribute to life. After all, how can you say “I love you” to your life if you spent it all on the couch?” © Den Osman

“I've always been different. People look at me and say “you're crazy!” . But what I do, I do for myself, not for anyone else. I'm not suicidal. When you sit on the couch, staring at a box, you die. I feel most alive when I'm face to face with my fears." © Den Osman

“Man goes to the mountains again and again, just as man goes into the stormy sea again and again, because only among the wild elements of nature can man challenge his deep abilities, as our ancestors did in ancient times. Modern life- This is a type of artificial existence. Most of the real qualities are simply turned off as unnecessary, and most of us don’t even imagine that they actually exist, we don’t know the full power of our own capabilities. And precisely in wildlife everyone's true essence comes out." © Abram T. Collier

“What's the point of buying a car to drive on asphalt? Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, and where it is interesting, there is no asphalt.” © Strugatsky brothers

“When a journey is aimed at exploring a country that is difficult to access, when it introduces us to nature that was known only from superficial and inaccurate descriptions, then the difficulty disappears...

A person is able to overcome many of the inconveniences of life... he will find black bread soaked in spring water tastier than the best dishes, if only he is inspired by curiosity, if the goal he wants to achieve arouses a keen interest in him.”

Quotes about ecology

“We float toxic chemicals and all sorts of waste into the ocean, just like a careless housewife sweeps garbage under the carpet.” © Thor Heirdal

“We don’t notice the air, but without it we suffocate. So it is with living nature. Only when we lose it completely will we realize that we have lost...” © Nikolai Sladkov.

“At the beginning of the 21st century, reckless faith in progress seems utopian. We know that the resources of our planet are partially depleted, we know that we are disturbing the balance of both the climate and the subsoil, and now we ourselves, compared to those who lived before us, are also depleted in our own way - we do not know how to endure pain, endure hardships, work tirelessly.” © Leonid Kruglov

Quotes about running

“I ran at night once or twice a week because... After working as a mason, I didn’t have the strength to train at all.” © Pasang Dawa Sherpa

“Running every day is not a luxury, but a way of life. And I can’t give it up just because I’m so busy with other things. If other things were a sufficient reason for me, I would have stopped running a long time ago. The reasons that motivate me to run are numerous, but the reasons to end this activity are a carriage and a small cart. The only thing that remains for me in such a situation is to continue to care for and cherish those who are “one or two too many.” © Haruki Murakami

Quotes about the Urals (Ural Mountains)

“The Ural Mountains are the most noble in the entire Empire and by vocation are understood to be those that the first descriptors called Hyperboreans and Repheas. The Tatars call them the Urals” © V.N. Tatishchev, 1744

“... the highest mountains extend to its very shores, the peaks of which... are completely devoid of any forest and almost even grass. Although they are in different places have different names, but are generally called the Peace Belt. And in the possession of the sovereign of Moscow you can see only these mountains, which the ancients probably thought were Riphean or Hyperborean.” © Sigismund Herberstein 1549 (Indicator of the way to Pechora, Ugra and the Ob River)

You don't have to climb it to find out if a mountain is high.

"Paulo Coelho"

Ambition can move such mountains that intelligence and talent do not even dare to dream of.

It’s very easy to take the peaks - you just have to go up all the time.

"Vladimir Belilovsky"

In the mountains, people often need help, so if you want to check on someone, you have a direct route to the mountains.

To find out if a mountain is high, you don't have to climb it.

"Pascal Brückner"

If it's hard for you, it means you're going uphill. If it's easy for you, then you're flying into the abyss.

"Henry Ford"

When you fall into the abyss, it's too late to think about whether there was a safer way to climb the mountain.

"Terry Pratchett"

It is impossible to evaluate in hard currency the feeling of freedom and timelessness that the mountains give you when you stand on a high spur under a flawless blue April sky and look around.

"Jonathan Coe"

The mountains call those whose souls are their height.

Mountains build character, give a Spartan upbringing and, of course, teach you to understand people.

We are born, we suffer, we die, but the mountains stand unshakable.

"Paulo Coelho"

My father believed that a walk in the mountains was equivalent to going to church.

"Aldous Huxley"

In the autumn mountains there is such a beautiful maple,
The foliage of the branches is dense - there is no way to find it!
Where are you wandering there? - I'm looking for you in vain:
I don't know the mountain paths.

"Kakinomoto Hitomaro"

There are many ways to find out something; you don’t have to check every fact yourself.

And high mountains cannot hold back the clouds.

Never go back to what you decided to leave. No matter how much they ask you, and no matter how much you want it yourself. Having conquered one mountain, begin to storm another.

"Marilyn Monroe"

Just as not everyone has the courage to take a flower from the top of a mountain, so not everyone has the courage to surrender to love.

The man sitting on the top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.

WITH mountain peak even a stormy sea seems like a smooth plain.

"Abe Kobo"

Children should cry, and mothers should calm them down - not the other way around. That is why mothers move mountains so that their children do not see their tears.

When a person feels that he is loved, he is ready for any feats; if he is unnecessary, then for any crimes.

Great poets, like high mountains, have numerous echoes. Their songs are repeated in all languages.

"IN. Hugo"

No egoistic happiness can last long if it is complete. Happiness is a peak state. It’s like standing on the top of a mountain, on a platform the width of your palm. You won’t stand there for long, the wind will blow you away.

If someone appears ready to move mountains, others will surely follow him, ready to break his neck.

Have you ever heard an avalanche roar in the mountains? Just after the avalanche rumbles off, absolute silence comes. You stop understanding where you are - that’s how she is one hundred percent. It's just very quiet.

"Haruki Murakami"

Nature created mountains to punish people when she wanted to humiliate them.

No matter how high the mountain is, any slope can become a path.

The mountain’s dream is to fly, flight is impossible, but in the form of a cloud its dream floats.

I look at the mountains, and the mountains look at me, And we look for a long time, without boring each other.

Remember: they don’t die in the mountains, they simply don’t live there.

Everyone has their own ways to achieve their goals, some will take longer, but along the right path, while others will not reach it at all, even on the shortest path.

People are piling up mountains of weapons everywhere and want peace everywhere. This is madness.

"Donald Michael Thomas"

The man sitting on the top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.

Quotes about mountains

You need to live not where it is beautiful, but where the conditions are suitable for life.

The last steps on the path to victory are always the most difficult.

From the top of the mountain you can better see how insignificant everything is below. Our victories and our sorrows are no longer so important. What we have achieved or lost lies down there. From the height of the mountain you see how vast the world is and how wide the horizons are.

"Paulo Coelho"

Contemplation of the great beauty of the mountains can only be complete when a friend is next to you.

"Yakov Arkin"

Love is like a rare flower that grows at the very top of the mountain and requires great courage to receive it.

On Mount Ararat Varvara was picking grapes.

People climb to the top of a mountain not to see the sky, but to see the plain.

"Jason Evangelou"

When descending to alpine skiing Either think faster than you drive, or drive slower than you think.

"Vladimir Belilovsky"

The baldness goes uphill, the baldness goes downhill, the baldness meets the baldness, the baldness of the baldness says: you are bald, I am bald, you will drop on the baldness, you will pick up the baldness, you will get another one.

The higher you go up the mountain, the harder it is to walk.

If you love me, I can move mountains. And if not, then the neck.

I'm not going to conquer the mountains - they are as much a part of the world as people. I'm conquering myself.
Wanda Rutkevich

There's no reason to stop
I'm walking, sliding.
And there are no such peaks in the world,
What you can't take.
Vladimir Vysotsky

Winter high altitude climbing is a sophisticated way of suffering in the mountains.
Wojtek Kurtyka

Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.
Guy de Maupassant

The day when you take full responsibility for your own future and stop looking for excuses for doubts will be the day you begin to move to the top.
Jay Simpson

Everyone wants to live on the top of the mountain, but happiness and growth happens when you climb it, not when you've already reached the top.
Life wisdom

In order to understand about yourself, talk to a stone in the mountains...
Indian proverbs and sayings

The person at the very top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.
Confucius

Sunrise in the mountains is the best event that can happen to a person.
Max Fry

My father believed that a walk in the mountains was equivalent to going to church.
Aldous Huxley

If you are sitting somewhere in the Himalayas and silence surrounds you, it is the silence of the Himalayas, but not yours. You must find your own Himalayas within yourself.
Osho

We are born, we suffer, we die, but the mountains stand unshakable.
Paulo Coelho. I sat down on the banks of the Rio Piedra and cried.

A climber’s life is not long... That’s why I’m a speleologist...
Speleologists proverb

There is neither honesty nor deceit in the mountains. They are simply dangerous.
Reinhold Messner

Robert Piercing

This world is mountains, and our actions are screams: the echo of our scream in the mountains always returns to us.
Rumi

Climb higher and jump into the abyss. Wings will appear during flight.

Ray Bradbury

In this life, it doesn't matter how you fall. It's how you rise that matters.
Sharon Stone

Where did you rest?
- In Turkey. All inclusive. And you?
- In the mountains. Everything is off...

The mountains fascinate and enchant, after such a vacation someone else needs it.

Mountains are the best healer for doubts and depression.

Mountains help you go higher, higher and higher...

Mountains are good. When you are here, everything bad remains below, and your soul becomes so light.

For some, mountains mean overcoming, a small victory over oneself, which for a moment allows you to forget about the everyday life. And for photographers it is an inspiration. They drink it with huge gulps of thin air and blue sky, trying to capture a moment of life, at least in a photograph.

If you don't like mountains, then you simply haven't been there.

The desire to conquer heights makes a person more integral and persistent.

When you reach the top, continue climbing.

Anyone who has conquered the peaks at least once will fall in love with the mountains forever.

Don't be afraid to go to the mountains, be afraid of never going there.

Don’t look for happiness beyond the mountains, beyond the valleys, climb the mountains - there is a real fairy-tale world there.

There is no peak in the world that perseverance cannot conquer.

People break their legs on bumps, not mountains.

On the tops of the mountains you will find only the peace that you bring there yourself.

Falling in love with the mountains is just a matter of visiting there once.

The way up is difficult, but the view is good.

Looking at a mountain from below is one thing, but being with it at least once on equal terms is the lot of the strong.

Only the mountains will allow you to feel absolutely free.

I think so, the only chance to lose weight with green tea is to climb mountains to collect it yourself...