My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn't passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become… — John R Noe Copy Share Image
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct,… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable,… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit; only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding."… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
I could have saved my marriage if I had chosen to. But when I was forced to take a new look, I… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume,… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport.… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles. "You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
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