Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
Interpretation
Life requires courage to pursue your ideas, often inspired by the beauty of nature.
This quote emphasizes that living fully involves taking risks and being bold in following your ideas and dreams. Reinhold Messner highlights the significance of nature, particularly the wilderness and mountains, as a source of inspiration and a metaphor for the adventurous spirit needed to bring one's ideas to life.
In practice
Using this quote during a motivational talk about following your dreams.
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'
A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.
I think my cultural work is more important than the adventures I did. The adventures are not important for human beings. It's the conquering of the useless.
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.
I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.
A Christian who does not protect Creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God, that work that was born from the love of God for us. And this is the first response to the first creation: protect creation, make it grow.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
What did the earth teach the trees? _x000D_ How to speak to the sky.
Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
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