“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.” IfsShouldBigsHappensSpiritualProcessGoalGrowthPayFeetDangerousMountainLaysPersonal GrowthGuidesCompromiseFixedClimbsPushingClimbingLoadPullingSoloOxygenRopeLaddersEverestSherpas Author:Yvon Chouinard
“Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.” LittlesEyeSchoolFeetAuthorityBenefitsHumbleViolentLiftsGentleFixedCustomsSlipsMistressFuriousCountenanceTreacherousHumble Beginnings Author:Michel de Montaigne
“The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.” PeopleWorldFeelsMayAbleOrderLiteratureWonderfulFeetHigherOrdinaryFixedRealmsGloriousClimbsHeavenlyRegionsMarvelousLaddersDay Life Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann
“I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.” ThinkingKnowsMindMeanEyePathFeetEndlessVarietyLandscapeFixedContemplative Author:Gretel Ehrlich