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Inspirational Quote
My fav one is

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense.
It only needs more defenders"


I wish i knew who said that because i think its the truth!
anyway what is your fav. one?
I love to hear quotes
wild flower
7:44:47 AM
6/13/02

Time flies when your having fun unless you’re a frog. Then, times fun when your having flies.
mtn gal
8:07:30 AM
6/13/02

If it was easy anyone could do it.

I didn’t say it would be easy, I said it would be worth it.
mtn gal
8:09:34 AM
6/13/02

We have met the enemy and he is us
--Pogo (By Walt Kelly)
Geobeet
8:17:21 AM
6/13/02

Whoa, you guys are inspiring me.

"The more interesting your life becomes, the less you post...and vice versa."

-Reid Goldsborough
kleetn
8:20:38 AM
6/13/02

(Upon signing of the Wilderness Act, 1964) "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."

-President Lyndon B. Johnson
chili36
8:22:44 AM
6/13/02

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children."

--Haida Indian Saying
chili36
8:28:26 AM
6/13/02

For the believer, no explanation is necessary.....for the non-believer, none will suffice.



Saw this quote on a movie the other night, can't remember who it was credited to. Stuck with me.
stratdewd
8:29:10 AM
6/13/02

"Just do it" - Nike (I think they're corporate bastards, but hey, it's a great saying)
Artex
9:08:23 AM
6/13/02

"Just do it" - Nike (I think they're corporate bastards, but hey, it's a great saying)
Artex
9:08:24 AM
6/13/02

Sorry for the double entry..
Artex
9:08:52 AM
6/13/02

Look down when walking. Doodie might be on the trail....
laqtis
9:33:34 AM
6/13/02

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it,
when people are saying it can't be done. - Mary Frances Berry
wild flower
9:40:55 AM
6/13/02

We acquire the strength we have overcome. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
wild flower
9:47:35 AM
6/13/02

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

-Ayn Rand
tarabull
9:49:28 AM
6/13/02

There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible - that
nothing is too good to be true. - Kobi Yamoda
wild flower
9:49:44 AM
6/13/02

Seen on the wall in a papermill breakroom,...

We`ll stop and work on this thing a hundreds times a day, but never take the time it takes to actually fix the damn thing.

Don`t know who said it, but it`s true of workplaces and relationships:(
Big Foot
9:54:26 AM
6/13/02

"there are no stupid people
just stupid questions"

yeah right!!
wild flower
10:00:17 AM
6/13/02

"The time has come" the Walrus said, "To speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."

Lewis Carrol
gordon
10:02:54 AM
6/13/02

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."


Well, you know who said that...
gordon
10:04:27 AM
6/13/02

You know Bill, these cigars taste a little strange.

---Al Gore
chili36
10:09:45 AM
6/13/02

There's an old quote, "I became conservative once I had something to conserve."
StoveStomper
10:10:01 AM
6/13/02

"Watch out where the husky go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."

Frank Zappa and the Mothers
bitpusher
10:10:49 AM
6/13/02

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
StoveStomper
10:13:57 AM
6/13/02

Aim high; that way you won't shoot yourself in the foot.
-Lois McMaster Bujold
treebait
10:15:44 AM
6/13/02

He who walks in beauty has no need of fear,
The sun and the moon and the stars keep pace with him,
Invisible hands restore the ruined year,
And time grows beautifully dim.

does anyone know who wrote that?
tarabull
10:27:02 AM
6/13/02

"B!tch set me up."

Marion Barry
Mayor of Washington, DC
(Retired)
Tilt
11:06:49 AM
6/13/02

tarabull, it was David Morton. But just who is David Morton?
kleetn
11:08:40 AM
6/13/02

"Support Search & Rescue... GET LOST"

Cospas-Sarsat bumper sticker
Tilt
11:11:18 AM
6/13/02

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.
- Kahlil Gibran
le Subtil
11:20:32 AM
6/13/02

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go
outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens,
nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that
then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the
circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings
solace in all troubles.
- Anne Frank
le Subtil
11:34:20 AM
6/13/02

"Sorry for the double entry.."
Artex
pedxing
11:39:16 AM
6/13/02

Wildflower: It was Edward Abbey in "The Journey Home."

From the same book: "That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t matter much whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway."

Also, more radically and controversially, he wrote: "I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain."
pedxing
11:46:44 AM
6/13/02

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
smiley girl
11:53:15 AM
6/13/02

Yes Ped ,I would've,but didn't.
uncliff
11:58:22 AM
6/13/02

Yes Ped ,I wuuld've,but didn't.
uncliff
11:59:49 AM
6/13/02

What is precious is never to forget
The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs
Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth;
Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light,
Nor its grave evening demand for love;
Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother
With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit


Stephen Spender
Phaedrus
12:02:27 PM
6/13/02

le subtil - I have that Kahlil Gibran quote at my desk at home. Love it!

kleetn - thanks for the info.

But just who is David Morton?"
kleetn
11:08:40 AM
06/13/02

A poet, I imagine. ;)
tarabull
12:12:22 PM
6/13/02

karma is the beginning of knowledge.
next is patience.
patience is very important.
the strong are the patient ones.
patience means holing back your inclination to the seven emotions:
hate
adoration
joy
anixety
anger
grief
and fear
if you do not give in, you're patient and everything else falls into place.

james clevel, excerpt from 'shogun'
wild flower
12:55:23 PM
6/13/02

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone. - Rose Kennedy
wild flower
7:56:40 AM
6/14/02

"I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing someone."

--Marilynn Chambers
chili36
8:28:05 AM
6/14/02

David Morton
Tarabull and Kleetn:

You guys are scaring me. That's the quote I leave in lean-to and summit registers in the Adirondack high peaks. No, I don't know who David Morton is - damn.
gremlin
8:31:46 AM
6/14/02

Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.
--Jack Handey


Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
--CG Jung
lyra
8:31:50 AM
6/14/02

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."

Ansel Adams
Tilt
9:26:21 AM
6/14/02

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Hector Berlioz
Tilt
9:29:08 AM
6/14/02

"Ack. Thpppbt."

Bill The Cat
Tilt
9:31:28 AM
6/14/02

there is a method to my maddness
wild flower
10:31:21 AM
6/14/02

Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.
--W.C. Fields
lyra
10:51:20 AM
6/14/02

"The message is that there are no knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns, that is to say there are things we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- things we do not know we don't know."
-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Violin
11:12:06 AM
6/14/02

i thought everyone already knew that.
Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.
--Anon.
lyra
11:15:22 AM
6/14/02

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