Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him. Freya Stark More Quotes by Freya Stark More Quotes From Freya Stark Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance. Freya Stark mountain personality views We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die. Freya Stark sap magic tree I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous. Freya Stark aim moral people It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Freya Stark depressing evil art every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace. Freya Stark universal produce peace Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used. Freya Stark influential fairness unfair This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity. Freya Stark excellence sake integrity Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort. Freya Stark change wise men Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death? Freya Stark dare intellectual I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats. Freya Stark preparation numbers thinking The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition. Freya Stark fashion garden art It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance. Freya Stark exercise war peace There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong. Freya Stark land two thinking Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness. Freya Stark inspirational children sex A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will. Freya Stark notebook pain journey The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. Freya Stark substance land unhappy If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. Freya Stark looks world thinking Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. Freya Stark fetters adaptability integrity Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing. Freya Stark timing trouble not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life. Freya Stark fashion artist hands
