mount quotes

The Japanese†have a saying that there are two kinds of fool: those who have never climbed Mount Fuji, and those who have climbed it more than once.

-John Morris
  Traveller from Tokyo.

To-day I find from my observations of the sun†that I am now camped in the centre of Australia. I have marked a tree and planted the British flag there. There is a high mount about two miles and a half to the north-north- east.Iwish it had been inthe centre; but on itto-morrow I will raise a cone of stones, and plant the flag there, and name it 'Central Mount Stuart'.

-John McDouall Stuart
  Journalentry, 22 Apr. Onreaching the centre of Australia, at Small Gum Creek. Collected inW. Hardman (ed) Journals ofJohn McDou'all Stuart during theYears1858,1859,1860,1861and1862.

O Oisin, mount by me and ride To shores by the wash of the tremulous tide, Where men have heaped no burial-mounds, And the days pass by like a wayward tune.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'TheWanderings of Oisin', l.80^3.