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[at-l] Outdoor quotes. Longish Part 1 of 3
I like this one the most:
Apr 22 03
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
Amen to that. This is a no BS zone from now on.
Dawg
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From: "Paul Magnanti" <pmags@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:07 PM
Subject: [at-l] Outdoor quotes. Longish Part 1 of 3
> Posted this a while ago. It is from an e-mail listI
> maintain. Most of these were found by me from
> readings, cribbed from other people on the various
> e-mail lists, a handful were submitted by other people
> who subscribe to the list. Edited a few out that
> really won't apply.
>
> enjoy..
>
>
>
> Feb 25 03
>
> Life should be an unfinished business.
> -Colin Fletcher, RIVER
>
>
> Mar 4 03
>
> "What is Tao?" Master Ummon replied: "Walk On".
>
>
>
> Mar 7 03
>
> Ask for the ancient paths where the good way is;
>
> and walk in it and find rest for your souls.
>
> -Jeremiah 6:16
>
>
>
> Mar 11 03
>
> When you arise in the morning, think of what a
> precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to
> think, to enjoy, to love.
>
> -Marcus Aurelius
>
>
>
> Mar 14 03
>
> When you get to a fork in the road, take it.
>
> -Yogi Berra
>
>
>
> Mar 18 03
>
> May the stars light your way and may you find the
> interior road. Forward!
>
> -traditional Irish farewell
>
>
>
> Mar 25 03
>
> Of course we weren't lost. We were merely where we
> shouldn't
> have been, without knowing where that was.
>
> -- T. Morris Longstreth, guidebook writer for
> Catskills and the 'Daks
>
>
>
> Mar 27 03
>
> The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest
> wilderness. - John Muir
>
>
>
> Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
> This is not done
> by jostling on the street.
>
> -William Blake
>
>
>
> Apr 8 03
>
> If you do not know where you are going, then any road
> will take you
> there. --Yiddish Proverb
>
>
>
> Apr 11 03
>
> The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to
> taste experience
> to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear
> for newer and richer experiences
> --Eleanor Roosevelt.
>
>
>
> Apr 18 03
>
> The path to our destination is not always a straight
> one, Ed. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we
> turn back. Maybe it doesn't
> matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is
> that we embark.
>
> --Leonard to Ed, NORTHERN EXPOSURE
>
>
>
> Apr 22 03
>
> Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
>
> --Ed Abbey
>
>
>
> Apr 25 03
>
> Life is meant to be lived, not survived.
>
> --CDT "thru-hiker" on HOW TO HIKE THE CONTINENTAL
> DIVIDE TRAIL video
>
>
>
> Apr 29 03
>
> A near tragedy: the first week out on the expedition
> someone lost the bottle opener, and for the rest of
> the trip we had to subsist on food and water.
>
> —W.C. FIELDS
>
>
>
> MAy 2 03
>
> Salvitor Ambulando (It is solved by walking)
>
> --Latin Proverb
>
>
>
> May 6 03
>
> "Hey Yogi, I think we're lost."
>
> Yogi Berra - "Ya, but we're making great time!"
>
>
>
> May 9 03
>
> All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me
>
> rejoice like a child.
>
> --Madame Curie
>
>
>
> May 13 03
>
> Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.
>
> -Shakespeare, JULIUS CAESAR
>
>
>
> May 20 03
>
> Here I am safely returned over those peaks from a
>
> journey far more beautiful and strange then anything I
>
> had hoped for or imagined. How is it that this safe
> return brings such regret?
>
> --Peter Matthiessen
>
>
>
> May 23 03
>
> We cannot see anything until we are possesed with the
>
> idea of it, take it into our heads, and then we can
>
> hardly see anything else.
>
> --Thoreau
>
>
>
> May 27 03
>
> Afoot and light hearted I take to the open road,
>
> Healthy, free, the world before me,
>
> The long brown path leading wherever I choose.
>
> --Walt Whitman, opening lines to SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD
>
>
>
> May 30 03
>
> The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream:
>
> He awoke and found it truth.
>
> --John Keats, in a letter written to a friend
>
>
>
> Jun 3 03
>
> Everything to Excess! To enjoy life take big bites.
>
> Moderation is for monks.
>
> --Robert A. Heinlein; said by alter-ego "Lazarus Long"
>
>
>
> June 6 03
>
> And the Lord said unto Satan, "Where comest thou?"
>
> Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "From going to
>
> and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down in
> it." -= Job 1:7
>
>
> June 10 03
>
> I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of
> the
> rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me
> and
> sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there
> before.
> --Mark Twain, HUCKLEBERRY FINN
>
>
>
> June 13 03
>
> There’s something wrong with a society that
> drives a car to work out in a gym.
>
> -BILL NYE, The Science Guy,
>
>
>
> June 17 03
>
> The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what
> is always beyond reach; its is also an expression of
> loyalty to the earth...
>
> the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we
> ever need --if only we had the eyes to see it.
>
> -Ed Abbey
>
>
>
> June 20 03
>
> The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have
> promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep...
>
> - Robert Frost
>
>
>
> June 24 03
>
> "Work sucks! I'm going to the mountains."
>
> -As seen on a t-shirt
>
>
>
> June 27 03
>
> Come away, O human child!
>
> To the waters and the wild
>
> With a faery, hand in hand,
>
> For the world's more full of weeping
>
> Than you can understand.
>
> --Yeats, THE STOLEN CHILD
>
>
>
> July 1 03
>
> This land is your land, this land is my land
>
> >From California, to the New York Island
>
> >From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
>
> This land was made for you and me
>
> --Woodie Guthrie
>
>
>
> July 8 03
>
> Zen Master to hot dog vendor - "Make me one with
> everything..."
>
>
>
> July 11 03
>
> Nature is indifferent to our love, but never
> unfaithful -Ed Abbey
>
>
>
> July 15 03
>
> I want to see what’s on the other side of the
> hill—then what’s
> beyond that.
>
> —Emma ‘Grandma’ Gatewood, at age 67
> first woman to thru-hike
> the Appalachian Trail (1955)
>
>
>
> July 18 03
>
> Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant
> shore.
> Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.
> –Chris Stevens, NORTHERN EXPOSURE
>
>
>
> July 22 03
>
> Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool
> mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty,
> stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.
>
> —Cindy Ross, JOURNEY ON THE CREST
>
>
>
> July 25 03
>
> We shall not cease from exploration,
>
> and the end of all our exploring
>
> will be to arrive where we started
>
> and know the place for the first time.
>
> -T.S. Elliot
>
>
>
> July 29 03
>
> What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to
>
> walk free and owe no superior?
>
> --Walt Whitman
>
>
>
> Aug 1 03
>
> Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare
> feet and the
> winds long to play with your hair.
>
> —-Kahil Gibran, THE PROPHET
>
>
>
> Aug 5 03
>
> The flowers bloom, the songbirds sing,
>
> and though it be sun or rain,
>
> I walk the mountaintops with spring
>
> from Georgia north to Maine.
>
> —-Earl Shaffer,first thru-hiker of the AT.
> Finished Aug 5, 1948
>
>
>
> Aug 8 03
>
> THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO: Be loyal to what you love,
> be true to the earth,fight your enemies with passion
> and laughter. --—Ed Abbey
>
>
>
> Aug 12 03
>
> We shall be known by the tracks we leave behind.
> -Dakota proverb
>
>
>
> Aug 15 03
>
> Weep, all ye little rains
>
> Wail, winds, wail,
>
> All along, along, along
>
> The Colorado Trail.
>
> --from the Colorado Trail (traditional cowboy song)
>
>
>
> Aug 19 03
>
> Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink
> the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the
> influences of each.
>
> -- Thoreau
>
>
>
> Aug 22 03
>
> It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it
> shows us how
> few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
> --Horace Kephart
>
>
>
> Aug 26 03
>
> Duct tape is like the Force. It has a dark side. It
> has a light side. It holds the universe together.
> --Anon.
>
>
>
> Aug 28 03
>
> It is not death that a man should fear, but he should
> fear never beginning to live.
>
> -Marcus Aurelius
>
>
>
> Sept 2 03
>
> As I walk, As I walk
>
> The Universe is walking with me.
>
> --from Navajo rain dance ceremony
>
>
>
> Sept 5 03
>
> You say the hill's too steep to climb,
>
> Climb it!
>
> You say you'd like to see me try,
>
> Climb it!
>
> You pick the place and I'll choose the time
>
> And I'll climb
>
> The hill in my own way
>
> --Pink Floyd, FEARLESS
>
>
>
> Sept 9 03
>
> Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of
> Life. --from the Sanskrit SALUTATION OF THE DAWN
>
>
>
> Sept 12 03
>
> Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be
> less tedious.
> --Virgil, ECOLOUGES
>
>
>
> Sept 16 03
>
> Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
> --Thoreau
>
>
>
> Sept 19 03
>
> There's a race of men that don't fit in,
>
> A race that can't sit still,
>
> So they break the heart of kith and kin
>
> And they roam the world at will...
>
>
>
> They range the field and rove the flood,
>
> And they climb the mountain's crest,
>
> Theirs is the curse of gypsy blood,
>
> And they don't know how to rest
>
> --Robert Service aka "The Poet of the Yukon", THE MEN
> THAT DON'T FIT IN
>
>
>
> Sept 23 03
>
> ...Nature, who is superior to all style and ages, is
> now, with pensive
>
> face, composing her poem Autumn, with which no work no
> will be to
>
> be compared.
>
> --Thoreau, A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERIMACK RIVERS
>
>
>
> Sept 26 03
>
> For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains,
>
> when he has suffered long and wandered long.
>
> So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
>
> --Homer, THE ODYSSEY
>
>
>
> Sept 30 03
>
> Pain is mandatory. Misery is optional.
>
> --Anon.
>
>
>
> Oct 3 03
>
> You can observe a lot by watching. --Yogi Berra
>
>
>
> Oct 7 03
>
> It's the same with white people. They cleared the
> forest, they dug up the land,
>
> and they gave us the flu. But they also brought power
> tools and penicillin
>
> and Ben and Jerry's ice cream. –Marilyn
> Whirlwind, NORTHERN EXPOSURE
>
>
>
> Oct 14 03
>
> ...the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they
> may act out
>
> their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
>
> --T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
>
>
>
> Oct 17 03
>
> We wanted to make good time, with the emphasis on good
> and not time.
>
> -Pirsig, ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE
>
>
>
> Oct 21 03
>
> I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered
> for a few days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> Oct 24 03
>
> Glorious it is when wandering time has come.
>
> --from an Inuit song
>
>
>
> Oct 28 03
>
> It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. -Sir
> Edmund Hillary.
>
>
>
> Oct 31 03
>
> >From ghoulies and ghosties
>
> And long-leggedy beasties
>
> And things that go bump in the night,
>
> Good Lord, deliver us!
>
> --Scottish saying
>
>
>
> Nov 4 2003
>
> The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.
>
> --Arab proverb
>
>
>
> Nov 7 2003
>
> Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom;
> because we like the smell of danger.
>
> --Edward Abbey
>
>
>
> Nov 11 2003
>
> You road I enter upon and look around,
>
> I believe you are not all that is here,
>
> I believe much unseen is also here
>
> --Walt Whitman, from SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD
>
>
>
> Nov 14 2003
>
> Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
> the things
>
> that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
> throw off the
>
> bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
> trade winds
>
> in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
>
> --Mark Twain
>
>
>
> Nov 18 2003
>
> We find after years of struggle that we do not take a
> trip; a trip takes us.
>
> --John Steinbeck, TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE
>
>
>
> Nov 21 2003
>
> Its pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
> -–Yogi Berra
>
>
>
> Nov 25 2003
>
> Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding,
> lonesome, dangereous,
>
> leading to the most amazing view. --Ed Abbey
>
>
>
> Dec 2 2003
>
> Then here's a hail to each flaming dawn
>
> And here's a cheer to the night that's gone
>
> And may I go a roaming on
>
> ... until the day I die
>
> --On a grave marker in the Adirondacks
>
>
>
> Dec 5 2003
>
> We celebrate not the trail, but the wild places it
> passes through.
>
> --Ray Jardine
>
>
>
> Dec 9 03
>
> Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic.
> Don’t worry too much about the fate of
>
> the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out
> there and enjoy the world, your
>
> girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands, wives; climb
> mountains, run rivers, get drunk,
>
> do whatever you want to do while you can, before
> it’s too late.
>
> --Ed Abbey
>
>
>
> Dec 12 03
>
> Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
>
> --Robert A. Heinlein; said by alter-ego "Lazarus Long"
>
>
>
> Dec 16 03
>
> Happy the man, and happy he alone,
>
> He, who can call today his own:
>
> He who, secure within, can say,
>
> Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today!
>
> --Horace
>
>
>
> Dec 19 03
>
> If you stand, stand. If you sit, sit. But don't
> wobble!
>
> --Zen Master Ummon
>
>
>
> Dec 23 03
>
> Perhaps what most moves us in the winter is some
> remeniscence of
>
> far off summer. How we leap by the side of open
> brooks! What
>
> beauty on the running brooks! What life! What society!
>
>
> The cold is merely superficial; it is summer still at
> the core,
>
> far,far within. --Thoreau
>
>
>
> Dec 30 03
>
> Carefully observe the way your heart draws you and
> then choose
>
> that way with all your strength. --Hasidic saying
>
>
>
>
>
> =====
> ************************************************************
> The true harvest of my life is intangible.... a little stardust caught, a
portion of the rainbow I have clutched
> --Thoreau
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