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Mountaineer Inspirational Quotes (1400)

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I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
Junko Tabei
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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Aleister Crowley
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Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.
Steve Fossett
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What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
Jon Krakauer
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
Ansel Adams
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One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
John Muir
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
Aleister Crowley
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I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
Aleister Crowley
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When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg.
David Roberts
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When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits.
Samantha Larson
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
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Beauty is the door to another world.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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A lot of people confuse free climbing with free solo. Free climbing is when we use ropes, but we only make upward progress with our bodies.
Dean Potter
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The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.
Edward Whymper
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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
David R. Brower
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The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.
Werner Heisenberg
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Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.
Doug Scott
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
John Muir
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Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
Galen Rowell
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Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me they are persons of all countries and of all ages distinguished in war, in council, and in letters easy to live with, always at my command.
Petrarch
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We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.
Ansel Adams
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At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.
Jerzy Kukuczka
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Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
John Muir
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