Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunlight is painting.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the next voyage of the Mayflower, after she carried the Pilgrims, she was employed in transporting a cargo of slaves from Africa.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

—Hosea Ballou

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

—William Blake

The mountains are calling and I must go.

—John Muir

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

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

—Rabindranath Tagore