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Climbing Quotes

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

"Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Franz Kafka (2016). “Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka”, p.354, Archipelago