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We learn what to want from each other, and our desires spread contagiously because we copy each other, hoping the people we admire hold the magic key to success and happiness. The more we imitate each other, the more we become the same –
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“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
“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
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Gijs’s 2024 Year in Books
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