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Jump to Page |  1 | 2   | 3   | 4   |  next >> 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” 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.” 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.” 8:09:34 AM 6/13/02 “We have met the enemy and he is us --Pogo (By Walt Kelly)” 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” 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” 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” 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.” 8:29:10 AM 6/13/02 “"Just do it" - Nike (I think they're corporate bastards, but hey, it's a great saying)” 9:08:23 AM 6/13/02 “"Just do it" - Nike (I think they're corporate bastards, but hey, it's a great saying)” 9:08:24 AM 6/13/02 “Sorry for the double entry..” 9:08:52 AM 6/13/02 “Look down when walking. Doodie might be on the trail....” 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” 9:40:55 AM 6/13/02 “We acquire the strength we have overcome. - Ralph Waldo Emerson” 9:47:35 AM 6/13/02 “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -Ayn Rand” 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” 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:(” 9:54:26 AM 6/13/02 “"there are no stupid people just stupid questions" yeah right!!” 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” 10:02:54 AM 6/13/02 “"I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Well, you know who said that...” 10:04:27 AM 6/13/02 “You know Bill, these cigars taste a little strange. ---Al Gore” 10:09:45 AM 6/13/02 “There's an old quote, "I became conservative once I had something to conserve."” 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” 10:10:49 AM 6/13/02 “Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.” 10:13:57 AM 6/13/02 “Aim high; that way you won't shoot yourself in the foot. -Lois McMaster Bujold” 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?” 10:27:02 AM 6/13/02 “"B!tch set me up." Marion Barry Mayor of Washington, DC (Retired)” 11:06:49 AM 6/13/02 “tarabull, it was David Morton. But just who is David Morton?” 11:08:40 AM 6/13/02 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” 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” 11:34:20 AM 6/13/02 “"Sorry for the double entry.." Artex” 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."” 11:46:44 AM 6/13/02 “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt-” 11:53:15 AM 6/13/02 “Yes Ped ,I would've,but didn't.” 11:58:22 AM 6/13/02 “Yes Ped ,I wuuld've,but didn't.” 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” 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. ;)” 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'” 12:55:23 PM 6/13/02 “I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone. - Rose Kennedy” 7:56:40 AM 6/14/02 “"I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing someone." --Marilynn Chambers” 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.” 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” 8:31:50 AM 6/14/02 “"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." Ansel Adams” 9:26:21 AM 6/14/02 “"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." Hector Berlioz” 9:29:08 AM 6/14/02 “"Ack. Thpppbt." Bill The Cat” 9:31:28 AM 6/14/02 “there is a method to my maddness” 10:31:21 AM 6/14/02 “Start off every day with a smile and get it over with. --W.C. Fields” 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” 11:12:06 AM 6/14/02 i thought everyone already knew that. “Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness. --Anon.” 11:15:22 AM 6/14/02
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