I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, and even rode mules. To do all these things in one of the most stunning natural areas in the world just made it more amazing. I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
The mountain music. . . is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.
Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.
Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9. 7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.
When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.