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“When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.”

People Country Travel Prejudice Humble Climbs Shed

Author:Hugh Sidey

“There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.”

Knows Men World Heart Stills Race Break Know How Blood Fields Fit Mountain Travel Range Curse Climbs Flood Gypsy

Author:Robert W. Service

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”

Source: The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.”

“Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain”

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

“The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.”

World Ends Nature Clear Air Travel Standing Empty Climbs Climbing End Of The World Ridges Top Of The World

Author:Stacy Allison

“You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.”

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Author:Willi Unsoeld

“I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.”

Way Home Travel My Way Climbs Floats Way Home

Book:West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

Source: West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems

“I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.”