The mountains are calling and I must go.
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letter to Sarah Muir Galloway (3 September 1873); published in William Federic Bad?, The Life and Letters of John Muir (1924), chapter 10: Yosemite and BeyondJohn Muir
From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn
To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles,
Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me
To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.Li Bai
The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.
Lesslie Newbigin
The singular mission of the working woman is to fuse her feminine calling with her vocational calling and, by means of that fusion, to give a feminine quality to her vocational calling.
Edith Stein
“Mountains, Bruce, mountains,” the manager said.
“Mountains, Bruce, mountains,” Bruce said and gazed.
“Echolalia, Bruce, echolalia,” the manager said. “Echolalia, Bruce—”
“Okay, Bruce,” the manager said, and shut the cabin door behind him, thinking, I believe I’ll put him among the carrots. Or beets. Something simple. Something that won’t puzzle him.Philip Kindred - a.k.a. PKD Dick
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.Robert Frost
Muir, John
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