Watts, J. 2005, 'Chinese activist vows to continue, despite beating' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/12/china.jonathanwatts, The Guardian, 12 October.
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
letter to sister Sarah Muir Galloway (3 September 1873); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 10: Yosemite and Beyond <br class="br">1870s
“I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.”
Patrick McGoohan (1928–2009) actor
When The Prisoner had an inconclusive ending <br class="br">Daily Mail, 15th January 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1116243/How-star-stage-Patrick-McGoohan-Prisoner-success-switching-screen.html
Robert Haugen (1942–2013) American economist
Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 2
“2707. If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the Mountain.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
"In the Sierra Forests", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 3 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated July 1875, published 3 August 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 79
1870s
Variant: Going to the woods is going home.
“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, from Yosemite Valley (7 October 1874); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 11: On Widening Currents <br class="br">1870s
