Greg Child famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.
-- Greg Child
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
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What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
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It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
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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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