#climb

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #climbing #doctors #early #elbow

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#cage #claws #climbed #face #her

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#ambitious #build #climb #confirmed #division

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#climb #done #every #fun #i

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#building #climb #heights #i #i can

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#natural-history #page- #dating

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? ↗

— James Beattie

#ah #climb #fame #hard #how

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#am #any #bound #climbed #day

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#higher #lonelier

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? ↗

— David R. Brower

#continents #deadly #drifting #edges #forward