#mount

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#amount #bombarded #days #get #hard

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#difference #mountains #saints #time

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#defeat #except #failure #inherent #insurmountable

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#goal #life #live #mountain #only

They were both at such an age that they stood on a cusp. They could think in one part of their minds that their whole lives stretched out before them without boundary or limit. At the same time another part guessed that youth was about over for them and what lay ahead was another country entirely, wherein the possibilities narrowed down moment by moment. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#mountain #age

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden. ↗

— Alain Robert

#buildings #climb #forbidden #i #i am

A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Time had aged the mountain; time had killed the mountain-and here lay the mountain's bones. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#age

Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one. ↗

— Reinhold Messner

#death #freezing #willpower #death

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. ↗

— John Muir

#walking #freedom