“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
“I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.” MadeSpiritualJoyLeftGrowthBehindsPoetMountainHungerTinySpiritual GrowthWoundedHonoredBugsLeft BehindHealed Author:Rumi
“Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.” MotivationalSuccessGrowthProgressJourneyMountainFinalsFulfillmentDestinationPerpetualContinuingSummitArrivingSpiralsFinal Destination Author:Wilferd Peterson
“Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.” MindWellsCountryStatesLanguageGrowthMountainRiversNativeEmpiresRivers And Mountains Author:William Hazlitt
“People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.” PeopleWritingYearsPastSongGrowsStuffGrowthInterestingMountainMajorsPianoThrowingSongwritersChordsGoatsInteresting Stuff Author:John Darnielle
“An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.” ImportantCountryGrowthMountainRiversForestsRangeValleysMountain Ranges Author:Arundhati Roy