"To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love - live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he has forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is free."
The National Outdoor Leadership School
Photo: Stunted Limber Pine making a go of it on Battle Mountain, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, March 30, 2012
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