“Here, just below the Earth’s summit, there are towns and villages, a tangle of human lives, in the shadow of Arctic eschatology.”
“Adam blows smoke at the town below. Says, ‘Anything could be happening down there, but up here you just wouldn’t know it.”
“The wolf lives right here. In this village". He looked at the villages. "Among you. It is one of you.”
“If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved.”
“Here below to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
“the only thing you'll find at the summit of mount everest is a divine view, the things that really matter lie far below it”