Anagarika Govinda Quotes

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

Anagarika Govinda

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• In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

  

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• Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.

  

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• It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

  

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• To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

  

  Anagarika Govinda
  • Distance
  • Mountain
  • Greatness