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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.”

Wells Children Light Used House Fire Mountain Horse Winter Climbs Climbing Cows Goats Climbing Mountain Livestock Winter Time Firewood

Author:Tamae Watanabe

“You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.”

Wells Meditation Buddhism Mountain Filled Valleys Smog

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

“I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.”

Wells Said Real Enough Helping Sky New York Building Needed Mountain Mouths No Friends

Author:Nickolas Ashford

“Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.”

Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

“A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.”

Ifs Wells Ability Mountain Height Dwarfs Dwarves Colossus

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎”

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.”

Wells Water Nature Wind Mountain Crystals

Book:John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails

Source: John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails