Top 1200 Climbing Trees Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

I love the beach and rock climbing and boxing and nature, so I like to stay away from my phone as much as possible.

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

I love my climbing shoes. Virtually all of my big solos have been in the TC Pros. They are the most important thing when I'm soloing.

If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God's hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

The challenges of adventure, rock climbing and alpinism trained me well for dealing with the slow neurodegenerative malady I'm experiencing.

Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down.

Climbing the mountain is always more fun than sitting at the top. It's just you have to find different mountains to climb.

In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

You can practice dance, climbing a mountain and action stunts, but to get your timing right you have to have the power of imagination and an alert mind.

The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the Universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.

A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

Climbing for me is about being free. It's just to move and be uninhibited and feel and tap into the connection with nature.

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

I've been climbing my whole life, so I know a lot of the feelings, the smells; these memories are pretty distinct in my mind still.

I used to love martial arts movies starring Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme. In one of Van Damme's movies, he would break a pine tree. I would kick banana trees because I used to live on a farm. My father would get mad at me because I would break all of the banana trees around.

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.