Mountaineer

🇺🇸Ansel Adams

Art

1902–1984

"The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream."

John Muir

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul."

🇷🇺Nikolai Krylenko

Law

1885–1938

"The basic mistake in eyery case is made by those women who consider 'freedom of abortion' as one of their civil rights. We need new fighters - they built this life, we need people."

🇳🇴Peter Wessel Zapffe

Philosophy

1899–1990

"Let the earth be silent after ye!" by Erik M. Lieungh, University of the Arctic"

🇺🇸John Muir (indologist)

Philosophy

environmentalism

1838–1914

"“Only that man... who is deluded, who is desirous of acquiring profits, who has neither deliberated upon his own religion, nor looked at the defects in Christianity, would become a Christian."

Petrarch

Literature

1304–1374

"Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest."

🇬🇧Leslie Stephen

Social Activism

1832–1904

"If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study."

🇬🇧Eric Shipton

1907–1977

"...and I longed to return to the peak to explore some of the many ridges and faces which as yet had never been attempted. I now realise how lucky I was to have had this extraordinary peak virtually to myself;..."

🇬🇧Freya Stark

Art

1893–1993

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

Aleister Crowley

Literature

Thelema

1875–1947

"Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself."

🇺🇸Jon Krakauer

Literature

b. 1954

"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."

🇳🇿Edmund Hillary

Business

1919–2008

"TIME : "The Greatest Adventures of All Time - The Race to the Pole"

John Tyndall

Science

1820–1893

"It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste."