Robert Macfarlane (writer) - Mountains of the Mind (2003)

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Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Robert Macfarlane

By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.

Robert Macfarlane