Top 1200 Climbing Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

If you don't have to worry about socializing because you don't like it, you can more fully immerse yourself in climbing.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

When I wake up, I don't worry about why the mountain is there. I just start climbing.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees, then that is what the tribe is. Even though some of the oldest trees here came from warriors of two different tribes, fallen in battle. We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe." Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman [member of another sentient species]. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it extend beyond the narrow confines of their tribe, their family, their nation.

I started climbing thanks to my parents, who have been going with me on the rocks since I was a baby.

I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.

I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

Filming typically takes a bit away from the climbing experience, since you have to stop all the time and shoot.

Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'

Climbing is great, and I don't think I'll ever tire of it, because there are so many different disciplines.

For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age.

How innocent were these Trees, that in Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze, Stood garlanded and gay; Who now in sundown glow Of serious colour clad confront me with their show As though resigned and sad, Trees, who unwhispering stand umber, bronze, gold; Pavilioning the land for one grown tired and old; Elm, chestnut, aspen and pine, I am merged in you, Who tell once more in tones of time, Your foliaged farewell.

Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.

I would never bring a flag on the summit. If somebody is climbing for a country he is not normal, he is sick.

I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.

Eight-man teams drilling expansion bolts in rocks? Sorry, that's not climbing - that's engineering.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Climbing is this lifestyle activity that really works every muscle in your body.

I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

God didn't design an elevator for me. It's great because I'm climbing stairs and learning with every step.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it's how you perceive it.