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Alfred Wainwright Quotes

1907–1991 England

Alfred Wainwright MBE (17 January 1907 - 20 January 1991), who preferred to be known as A. Wainwright or A.W., was an English fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator.

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Some people escape in dreams but I was fortunate enough to live in a perfect dreamland that actually existed. I was always happier pulling on my boots in the morning then putting on my shoes.

I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

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