„No one of the rocks seems to call me now, nor any of the distant mountains. Surely this Merced and Tuolumne chapter of my life is done.“

— John Muir

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„I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.“
— James Joyce
„No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.“
— Tennessee Williams
„It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Life doesn't happen in chapters — at least, not regular ones.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?“
— Jane Austen
„Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?“
— William Makepeace Thackeray
„In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.“
— John Muir