Greg Child quotes
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“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.”
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“The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship.”
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“Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.”
-- Greg ChildSource : Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books
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“If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.”
-- Greg ChildSource : Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.158, Mountaineers Books
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“Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.”
-- Greg ChildSource : Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.81, The Mountaineers Books
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“The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.”
-- Greg ChildSource : Greg Child (1998). “Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas”, p.133, The Mountaineers Books
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”
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“Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.”
Source : Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock, Josef-Albers-Museum (2004). “Agnes Martin: the islands”, Richter Verlag
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“There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.”
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