“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest
What You Learn at the Top of Everest
Tag: hiking inspiration
Take A Break and a Look Around
“It is easy in this pompous age to scan the big things of the world and forget to see the small miracles of life around us; the morning light, the flowers, those intimate details of the world that combine to make it beautiful.” – Ansel Adams
Ansel Adam’s Yosemite
“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” – Ansel Adams
Time to Wander
“Wandering re-established the harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” -Anatole France, French poet
Look Deep Into Nature
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -Albert Einstein
Timeless wisdom of the mountains
“It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains, to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world.” Muso Soseki, 14th-century Zen Buddhist poet
My Wish for You!
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view… where storms come and go as lightening clangs upon the high crags where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams wait for you… beyond the next turning of the canyon walls.” Edward Abbey, Benediction