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" I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish? "

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" I am a vegetarian, and I sort of aspire to vegan-hood. So far I've noticed no difference at all in my climbing, but I feel a bit healthier overall. Though that's only because I'm eating more fruits and vegetables. I think the whole protein thing is overhyped. Most Americans eat far more than we need. "

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Feel

Think

Eating

" My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. "

" Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. "

" It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. "

" I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden. "

" Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing. "

" We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? "

" I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. "

" Garden as though you will live forever. "

" I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends. "

Alex Honnold

Glory

Friends

" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "

" Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. "

" Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. "

" I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely. "

Alex Honnold

Walk

Fear

" My fantasy breakfast is just a really good egg scramble. Maybe I'll add a little feta, so, uh, obviously not totally dairy-free. Definitely some vegetables, maybe some really nice tortillas; something to make it like a Mexican-style breakfast. I just really love breakfast. "

" Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. "

" I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me. "

Alex Honnold

Front

Thinking

" What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. "

Charles Dudley Warner

Needs

Gardening

Man

" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "

" I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. "

Hayley Mills

Garden

Gardening

" Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within. "

" There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully. "

" I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. "

" I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. "

" Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. "

" Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails. "

" I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living. "

" If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. "

John Harrison

Build

Plants

" I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more. "

" You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. "