We bow only to the highest mountain.

 

We bow only to the highest mountain.
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The Rope of Man, epilogue, ISBN 0790008947

 

Witi Ihimaera

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To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer. I have had the expedition in mind for many years; for, as you know, I have lived in this region from infancy, having been cast here by that fate which determines the affairs of men. Consequently the mountain, which is visible from a great distance, was ever before my eyes, and I conceived the plan of some time doing what I have at last accomplished to-day.

 

Petrarch

 

I have climbed highest mountain;
I have run through the fields.
Only to be with you;
Only to be with you.

 

Larry Mullen

 

We’ve been in the mountain of war. We’ve been in the mountain of violence. We’ve been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

 

Martin Luther King

 

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

 

Friedrich Tholuck

 

I was on top of the mountain. But there was nothing there. Just clouds. And I found that you can't live on that mountain. But when it throws you off — oh, how you long for it! I would kill to climb it again. I would sell my soul. It is so stupid. [...] I took the standard. And now I can't even become a farmer again. The mountain won't let me.

 

David Gemmell