Donald J. Newman quotes

  • Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak.
    -- Donald J. Newman

    #Shining #Mountain #Path

  • If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

  • The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

  • Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

  • Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

  • Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too

  • I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

  • I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!

  • To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

  • History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

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