I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other. — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the… — Traci Lords Copy Share Image
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing… — John Sherman Copy Share Image
In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over… — Kelly Preston Copy Share Image
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them. — Babu Antony Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak:… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“you use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don’t allow for crawling and wriggling,… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go… — Wilfrid Noyce Copy Share Image
I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The road to glory is difficult with its rocks and boulders, its strain and struggle. Things aren't always as easy as we… — Thelma Wells Copy Share Image
We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how… — William Law Copy Share Image
There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of… — Gail Mazur Copy Share Image
Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world. — Ron Kauk Copy Share Image
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There is no joy involved in climbing mountains, there is simply the challenge, the self-invented challenge, the play. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
“Never stop climbing mountains! They are like any other challenge in life; once you go across them, pleasure is all yours.” — Karma Gurung Copy Share Image
A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out — Jim Bridwell Copy Share Image
Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I don't worry about why the mountain is there. I just start climbing. — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
I have different shoes for different types of climbing, six or seven different shoes that I alternate. — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where… — Annie Smith Peck Copy Share Image
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot. — Chris Bonington Copy Share Image
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing. — Alex Lowe Copy Share Image
