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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
by Galen Rowell (Photographer, American , born in 1940) keywords: activities, body, climbing, directly, even, involved, mean, mind, mountain, natural, observer, only, part, participant, philosophy, photograph, photographing, rather, some, such, than , world When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
by Wilma Rudolph (Athlete, American , born in 1940) keywords: anything, difficult, high, mountain, overcome, shining, sun, too , trouble Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
by Robert Service (Poet, Scottish , born in 1970) keywords: ahead, annoyances, big, conserve, energies, grain, master, mountain, out, petty, sand, shoe, things, wears, worthwhile , your A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
by Sivananda (Scientist, Indian , born in 1887) keywords: actions, bad, composed, consequences, details, drops, earth, endless, even, far-reaching, good, grains, least, life, little, made, mountain, ocean, series, speeches, them, thoughts, tiny, up, water , whether The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
by Paul Stanley (Musician, American , born in 1952) keywords: band, big, enough, great, more, mountain, realize, rock-n-roll, than, thing , top I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
by Laurence Sterne (Novelist, Irish , born in 1713) keywords: alone, any, asked, cottage, could, habitation, hermit, his, how, italy, live, mile, mountain, neighbor, next-door, once, providence, replied, single, top , venture I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer, Scottish , born in 1850) keywords: cathedral, churches, favorite, great, happily, inspired, kind, made, mankind, mountain, never, scenery , weary Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
by Hudson Stuck (Explorer, English , born in 1865) keywords: alaska, been, being, day, distinction, earned, first, foot, great, had, human, lead, lifelong, mountain, native, scramble, set, top, up, upon, walter , well The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
by David Trimble (Politician, Irish , born in 1944) keywords: ahead, behind, dark, distance, forward, future, historical, into, leave, mountain, our, past, really, sectarianism, see, seem, shadow, thrown, us , wish I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
by Cicely Tyson (Actor, American , born in 1933) keywords: achieved, begin, believe, entire, having, high, left, life, mountain, nothing, reach, something, spend, striving, then, think, top, towards, want, will, work , yourself I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
by Brenda Ueland (Writer, American , born in 1891) keywords: absorbed, after, another, beads, byron, child, feel, happy, kindergarten, learned, lord, mountain, putting, quietly, should, stringing, top , writing Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
by Denis Waitley (Writer , American) keywords: exhilarating, knowing, makes, mountain, relish, scaling, take, their, time, top, view, winners , work After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
by George C. Wallace (Politician, American , born in 1919) topics: Politics keywords: after, climbed, consideration, feel, last, mountain, much, must, political , say When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Writer, American , born in 1850) keywords: climb, craving, men, mountain, new, restless, seek, souls, spurs, them, tire, view , ways One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
by Earl Wilson (Athlete, American , born in 1934) keywords: blood, climbing, get, go, high, molehills, mountain, over, pressure , way Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
by Brock Yates (Editor, American , born in 1933) keywords: bikes, exercise, get, including, light, mountain, own, pleasure, ride, several, style, terrific, them, think, trendy , wrong Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
by Fritz Zwicky (Scientist, Swiss , born in 1898) keywords: active, adventure, again, also, big, book, climbing, days, doing, dream, faded, few, long, mountain, mountains, once, over, pages, read, since, sometimes, still, thought, time, were , wonderful
