Yvon Chouinard

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won__ happen if you compromise away the entire process.

The more you know, the less you need.

_the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.

Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you__e right on the edge, but you don__ go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

Everything we personally own that__ made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we__e either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

_most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.