--Bill Bowerman
I have nothing to do and all day to get it done--Ron John
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to prove--CW
There is more to life than increasing its speed--Gandhi
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income--Logan Pearsall Smith
If going mad didn't kill you, and you survived collapsing cornices and tent-ripping storms, you would forever walk twisted among your peers, changed irreparably by a stark and surreal world beyond most people's earthly experience.--Jonathan Waterman
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on who to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
--Benjamin Franklin
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.--H.D. Thoreau
Never sit when you can stand,
Never ride when you can walk,
Never Lean
--Shaolin Buddist aphorism
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.--Dave Barry
If I work incessantly to the last,
Nature owes me another form of existence
When the present one collapses
--JW van Goethe
The Spirits that I summoned up
I now can not rid myself of.
--JW van Goethe
Quitting while you're ahead is not the same as quitting.
--from the movie American Gangster
Those who can't fly want to keep the rest of us on the ground.
--C.W.
The landscape by its patient resting there, teaches me that all good remains with him that waiteth, and that I shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here, than by hurrying over the hills of the west.--H.D.T
Danger is the price of freedom. --Jack Turner
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity
And an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
When all you have is a hammer,
every problem looks like a nail. --author unknown
When is the last time I ran Free? How do I make life come alive again?--Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You only find out who's swimming naked when the tide goes out.--Warren Buffet
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
--Thomas Merton
You have to be careful or instead of you living off the Land,
the Land will be living off of you. --Carol Wellman
I believed that within the Clarity of immense space I would glimpse a truth. I've often sought that vision...I believe it now, though it eludes me still. --Jack Turner
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary.---H. D. Thoreau
My greatest skill has been to want but little.--H.D. Thoreau
In the end you find no one wins, and the race was only with yourself. So, take the path of your own choosing, and be not dismayed if no one leads, or follows.--author unknown
No amount of screaming will make that fun.--CW
If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space.--unknown
