George

“Want to do your mind and body a favour? Take your backpack and go to the mountains! Want to do yourself a bigger favour? Go to the mountains and stay there for a couple of days!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If God had decided to build His own church, it would’ve been the mountains. There a man can live like He intended us to live, and never forget that He is there.”
― M.J. Hayes, Son of the Mountain

“- You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce version illustrated by Brian Keogh

“We were going home. The mountains might seem hostile to some people, but they were a shelter and a blessing for me. I lived in their shadows. As they have strength to my ancestors long ago, they gave strength to me now.”
― Florence Cope Bush, Dorie: Woman of the Mountains