„Let this always be plain to thee, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same with all things on the top of a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou chooses to be.“

— Marcus Aurelius

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„O Beautiful, for smoggy skies, insecticided grainfor strip-mined mountains' majesty, above the asphalt plainAmerica, America, man sheds his waste on theeand hides the pines, with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.“
— George Carlin
„Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.“
— Hunter S. Thompson