Tiziano Terzani's quotes

- Tiziano Terzani -

 "I like being in a body that's growing old. I can look at the mountains without feeling I have to climb them.
When I was young I'd have wanted to conquer them. Now I can let them conquer me. The mountains, like the sea, remind us of a dimension of greatness which can inspire and uplift us. That same greatness is also in each of us, but we find it difficult to recognize. This is why we're attracted to mountains. [...]

Sometimes I wonder if the sense of frustration and powerlessness which many, especially the young, feel when confronted with the world of today is not due to the fact that it seems so complicated and hard to understand. The only possible reaction is to believe it's the world of someone else, a world you're not allowed to get your hands on or change. And yet it's not true. This is everybody's world".

- From the book Letters against the war

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