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“We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.”

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Author:Tamae Watanabe

“Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”

“I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.”

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Author:Lincoln Hall

“Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.”

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.”

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Book:THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

Source: THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

“The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

“Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.”

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Author:Octavia Butler

“The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.”

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Author:Michael Arndt

“There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.”

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Author:Karyn Kusama

“I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

“The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.”

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Author:Chris Darwin

“Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.”

Source: Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

“Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.”

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Author:Jonathan Waterman

“Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.”

“There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.”

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Author:Jimmy Chin

“There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.”

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Author:Richard R. Nelson

“I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

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Author:Edmund Hillary

“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.”

“- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.”

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Author:George Leigh Mallory

“Experience comes from bad judgment.”

“Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.”

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Book:The Lonely Men

Source: The Lonely Men

“If you are under control you're going too slow.”

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Author:Parnelli Jones

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

“To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.”

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Author:Abdellatif Kechiche

“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.”

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Author:Sam Heughan

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

“There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”

“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

“I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.”

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Author:Lord Byron