Los Angeles. The final test is whether your experience of the sacred in nature enables you to cope more effectively with the problems of people. If it does not enable you to cope more effectively with the problems — and sometimes it doesn’t, it sometimes sucks you right out into the wilderness and you stay there the rest of your Life – then when that happens, by my scale of value; it’s failed. You go to nature for an experience of the sacred … to re-establish your contact with the core of things, where it’s really at, in order to enable you to come back to the world of people and operate more effectively. Seek ye first the kingdom of nature, that the kingdom of man might be realized. Evergreen's annual Willi Unsoeld Seminar is held as a living memorial to Unsoeld as a mountaineer, a philosopher and a theologian. See also List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest References External links Willi Unsoeld: Brief Biography & Quotes 1926 births 1979 deaths People from Arcata, California American mountain climbers Oregon State University alumni Outdoor educators Mountaineering deaths Natural disaster deaths in Washington (state) American summiters of Mount Everest Deaths in avalanches Evergreen State College faculty Peace Corps directors