![]() ![]() “Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us, God.”ĩ5. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.”ĩ4. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.”Ĩ8. “Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. “There’s a world out there, and you’ve got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.”Ĩ7. The pull of the horizon overcomes the inertia of reason… And you just have to go.”Ĩ6. “When the wind calls, you know, that somewhere in the mountains, it has found the answers that you were looking for. “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”Ĩ5. “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.”Ĩ4. “The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.”Ĩ3. “Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.”Ĩ2. “You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.”ħ4. “Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.”ħ3. “In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.”ħ2. “So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.”ħ1. “I like geography best because your mountains & rivers know the secret Pay no attention to borders.”ħ0. “Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.”Ħ9. “Life’s a bit like mountaineering - never look down”Ħ8. ![]() “Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.”Ħ7. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”Ħ6. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. “Mountains are the beginning and the end of all-natural scenery.”Ħ5. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books.”Ħ4. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.”Ħ2. “Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. “The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!” -Mehmet Murat ildanĦ1. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other."Ħ0. Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. "You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” - Vera Nazarianĥ9. You can turn around and go back the way you came. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can climb it and cross to the other side. “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.”ĥ7. “You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. “In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home.”ĥ6. There is only the soul, free from the prison of the body, and it is released to travelĪnother millennium through time, carrying with it the progress and industry gathered from the Is so grand that there is no other worldly place imaginable, for there is no world left to beĬonsidered. Where mermaids sing and summon their lovers home, further down into the depths of someĬomplacent serenity, further down where thoughts float away and never return and the lightness Gliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond, below His eyes, felt the levity manifesting, and felt the complete freedom inside. From below it was impossible to make out theįace of the balancing figurine now poised in suspended descent. Toward them like sirens guiding ships in the night. The hoots came louder now, almost calling him He almost toppled when the wind picked up again, but recovered and kept one footĭangling with the other anchored to the roof. Groundskeeper looked up to see what justified the commotion. They started to rile with anticipation, their irate murmurings incomprehensible. Some patients below could see the figure atop the building from He knew that he did not have much time before the other would follow. “Riding high and above the waves on extemporaneous notions of an afterlife, Michael brought one foot forward and let it dangle over the roof’s edge. ![]()
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