Maurice Herzog famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.
-- Maurice Herzog

#Life And Death #Mountain #Fields
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,
-- Maurice Herzog

#Men #Touching #World
Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.
-- Maurice Herzog

#Pain #Joy #Together
The mountains were there and so was I.
-- Maurice Herzog

#Hiking #Mountain #Mountain Climbing

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.
When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.
Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.
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.
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Maurice Herzog famous quotes

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