Willi Unsoeld quotes
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“How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?”
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“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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“Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself”
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“Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group. No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it.”
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“Death is not too great a price for a life fully lived.”
-- Willi Unsoeld
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Source : Interview with William Van Meter, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.
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“We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.”
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“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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