Ttowne

“A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”
― Reinhold Messner

“...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.”
― Reinhold Messner, Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven Continents

“Wilderness. The word itself is music.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire