"The thing that keeps you scrambling over the……" — Robert Adams
"The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor."
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78 Quotes by Robert Adams
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
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