You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)

You don't have to be alone to feel alone.

My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I feel as though there is nothing we can do for elephants - I feel that the only good I am doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth.

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.