Looking for a few special Quotes

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”

― Anatoli Boukreev

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure.
Anything less is just working out.

--Jim Bridwell

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Quack" ~ said the duck as it flew over the countryside ....

We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads...

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure.
Anything less is just working out.

--Jim Bridwell

Anyone know any John Muir or Norman Clyde's worthy words that are meaningful to you?

"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." — René Daumal.

Enough of this hiking. Let's get on with the climbing.

I may have met you briefly (try 2 minutes). Didn't you deliver the fresh fish to Todd Gordon's when we had the Sushi Fest there?

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.

Chief Seattle's Letter

"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.

We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the dew in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man all belong to the same family.

The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother.

If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted with talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is to say goodbye to the swift pony and then hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.

When the last red man has vanished with this wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?

We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother's heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it, as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children, and love it, as God loves us.

As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you.

One thing we know - there is only one God. No man, be he Red man or White man, can be apart. We ARE all brothers after all."

Of course there is the quote attributed to Eric Beck:

"At either end of the social spectrum lies a leisure class"

Or something like that.

Up high you all look like bugs. What a cool spot. I’m cool to even be here. I’m better than all of you.

~Jebus in the mountains (what a d bag)

Sent you some stuff Lynnie. Gotta get over here, look at the stuff I have, eat some grub and drink some wine! Bring The Yerian when he gets in.....guitars, harps and anything else that makes music.
Peace

“So, it’s kind of like the quest for the holy grail. Well, you know, who gives a sh#t what the holy grail is. It’s the quest is what’s important.”

Fuggetaboutit, kid, I’m just busting yer chops.

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
--- Albert Einstein

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

"No I don't. I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell".

"Confidence is the feeling you have before you fully understand the situation."

“Adventure and excitement are the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes.” -- Jim Bridwell 2015

"Confidence is the feeling you have before you fully understand the situation."

That's classic, and all too often true.

Who?