Keep Close To Nature's Heart

Keep close to nature's heart... and 

break clear away, once in awhile, and
climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
~ John Muir

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[GMW #2877]

Climb The Mountains Of Truth

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche 

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[GMW #2807]

Walk Own Way To Search For Reality

I have the nerve to walk my own way, 

however hard, in my search for reality, 

rather than climb upon the rattling 

wagon of wishful illusions.

~ Zora Neale Hurston, letter to Countee Cullen

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[GMW #2919]

Climb To A Lofty Height By Steps Not Leaps

Those who would climb to a lofty height

must go by steps, not leaps.

~ St. Gregory the Great

from a letter to Augustine of Canterbury

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[GMW #3099]

Embrace Challenge To See The World

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag,

but to embrace the challenge, 

enjoy the air and behold the view. 

Climb it so you can see the world, 

not so the world can see you.

~ David McCullough

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[GMW #3076]

Mother To Son

Well, Son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor –
Bare.

But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.

So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now –
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
~ Langston Hughes

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[GMW #2969]