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the true mark of long acquaintance with a single place is a readiness to accept uncertainty: a contentment with the knowledge that you must not seek complete knowledge.
“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.”
― The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
― The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
“Knowing another is endless. The thing to be known grows with the knowing.”
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“The presence of a person does not destruct from, but enhances the silence, if if the other person is the right sort of hill companion. The perfect hill companion is the one whose identity is for the time being merged in that of the mountains, as you feel your own to be.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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