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“I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.”
― The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
― The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
“This crappy, mean, broken-down school took five years of my life. I’d be mad, but for the fact that it taught me more about who I was than anything else I have ever done. It also made me think that modern life is rubbish for so many people. How few choices it gives them. How it lays out in front of them a future that bores most of them so much they can’t wait to get smashed out of their heads each weekend. How little most people are believed in, and how much it asks of so many people for so little in return.”
― The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
― The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
“Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.”
― Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
― Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
“In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.”
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
“This crappy, mean, broken-down school took five years of my life. I'd be mad, but for the fact that it taught me more about who I was than anything else I have ever done. It also made me think that modern life is rubbish for so many people. How few choices it gives them. How it lays out in front of them a future that bored most of them so much they couldn't wait to get smashed out of their heads each weekend. How little most people are believed in, and how much it asks of so many people for so little in return.”
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
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