"Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer."
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"It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape."
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"A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away."
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"Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain."
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"I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air."
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"In the mountains, there you feel free."
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"My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money."
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"The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil."
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"In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."
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"Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there."
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"If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains."
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"Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end."
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"To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea."
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"At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards."
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"You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired."
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"Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills."
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"The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us."
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"Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'"
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"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
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"Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain."
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