Top 1200 Climbing Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

Rock climbing and surfing are two of my favorite things in life.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.

One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.

There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Climbing in the Olympics would be my dream, but I'm not so optimistic that it will make it in 2020.

I do yoga. I meditate, and when I'm not climbing, I focus on breathing deeply all day long.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

I don't like talking about climbing that much. You don't have to discuss; just do it.

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

My whole career, I've been climbing or chasing or hunting something.

As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

My manager called me once during one of my vacations and said, "I have a fantastic offer for you. Just hear me out. Don't say no yet." And it was fantastic offer but I said, "Seymour, I'd love to do it, but I really can't. My orchid trees are in bloom. I never leave when my orchid trees are in bloom." He thought it was crazy, but I am very into certain things. If a dog is sick I won't work.

According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.

Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.

The attractive thing about rock climbing: There are no rules.

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!

For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

I don't think kids climbing up the leg of someone is a big deal.

The kind of climbing I like is fast and as free as possible of gadgetry.

Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?

I remember when I started climbing more seriously. That was when I was six years old.

You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.

The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

I don't like Las Vegas. I'd rather be mountain biking or climbing.

Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!