Top 1200 Climbing Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.

I think climbing deserves to be an Olympic sport, as it is one of the few natural movements - like swimming or running, things that people have been doing for a thousand years.

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

The secret to climbing up is to put your heart into your work.

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!

No matter how hard something gets, keep diving in and work harder. Don't stop. Keep climbing.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.

So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still, high, light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share in this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content? No, no, no - but refreshed, rested - while waiting.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.

I consider myself a rock climber but the definition of rock climbing as has changed.

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

When I lost seven of my toes on Nanga Parbat and small parts of my fingertips I knew I'd never be a great rock climber. So I specialized in high-altitude climbing.

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

We all have our notions of sport. If I'd wanted to make my living climbing mountains, I wouldn't have gone into publishing. Most of the time, you're sitting in a dark room reading a manuscript.

Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.

I think I know now that you can't do this sort of climbing and have a domestic side. You're not a practicing father if you're not there. You're maybe a visiting father.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I've never had problems about passionate motivation to just keep climbing and keep training and pushing.

Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill of them because that’d be a bad Christmas.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part of the landscape, part of the rock.

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

I'm a man's man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.

If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.

I look at stuff like the 'The Whole 19 Yards' and it reminds me of my childhood watching shows with Mike Reid and kids climbing over obstacles.

When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to accomplish it.

The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a love and reverence for Nature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute, "to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs" was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love Nature and reverence Nature's God, and to see the uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and at-tractive.

Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.