What are you more passionate about: knives or the wilderness?

for me its a combination of the two

I love the bush , I seriously love it when I get oportunity to spend time on my tribal ground . Wth my feet in the dirt and the bush around me , little else matters besides my family right then and there :)

Most the stuff I do in the bush eventually requires cutting something somehow somewhere , I can make do with stuff to hand if I need to but I like to have a knife with me , preferably one I made myself , just a personal thing for me , there was a time when knowing the knife I was using , I made it , and that was the mental boost I needed to keep going , if I can make that , I can do this ..

the bush and my knives ... both are kinda intertwined in my life I dunno I can seperate the two .
 
While I like both, if i had to I could live the rest of my life without a knife but not without the wilderness.
 
I'd say both, but wilderness is over knifes.

Knifes make staying in the widerness easy. Plus could get you out of a fix if you got into one.

End of the day for me the two go together. I always have some kind of blade with me.
 
I love the wilderness and my knives. The wilderness is the playground for my knives and equipment. While I could enjoy the wilderness without my knives, It is more enjoyable for me to have them with me. I buy my knives to use, I take more than I need. Just trying to give them their rec time in the sun.:D
 
For me they go hand in hand. I love the wilderness. Yet, thinking about my knives makes me think about being in the wilderness. Make sense?
 
I actually just had to sit down and think about this for a good while.

My first answer was I'm definitely more passionate about knives than I am about the outdoors, hiking, wilderness, etc. I mean, I've been absolutely nuts about knives since I was tiny and I've spent a medium size fortune on them for as long as I can remember. I've always appreciated knives for much more than just their intended uses. I like the shapes, the variety, the artform, everything about them. I love the history that some can carry, the roots that the designs have in history, the feelings that they inspire. I could go on and on forever. I absolutely love my knives and everything about them. I've never spent a fortune on being outside. That was my first series of thoughts.

Then I started to think about how much time I've spent between the two things. I've spent a good deal of my life being, in some way, involved with knives, whether it be from using them, to collecting them, to researching and learning about them. However, I've spent WAAY more time outdoors, camping, hiking, all kinds of stuff. I might not have spent near as much money doing those activities as I have on knives, but that's only because it was always free, for the most part.

After I thought about it some more, I asked myself, "if being in the wilderness/outdoors cost money, would I be willing to sacrifice my love for knives in order to invest in my outdoor activities?" The answer is most certainly yes. I would rather have only a handfull of knives that served their specific purposes and still be able to have all of my outdoors experience and activities. So the conclusion is that I am more passionate about the wilderness/outdoors than I am about knives.
 
Since I was a youngster I'd have either a fishing rod or a .22 in hand. So I'd have to say that the bush is #1 as a primary factor, and whatever I carry in is #2. I've gotten off my motorcycle to simply walk through the fall leaves/trees. The holistic power of the environment lifts me up. Whether a folder/fixed blade/hawk, common sense and social responsibility/discretion dictate what I carry. This often means that I often bag my outdoor tools and place them in the trunk until out of town. Then I can enjoy my outdoor activities without frightening the local community.
 
I love both equally.

Should I not have one of them I would still use the other as often.

But I do enjoy both together as often as I can.
 
I'd say knives, but only because I use them in my daily life, not just in the woods. Blades are a part of life for me. In the city, in the country, in the wilderness, rarely a day goes by without a knife being used.

Also, I'm one of the ones for whom the wilderness and blades were always connected. Even when very young, IK didn't go in the woods without a knife (of course, back then, we went to school with them as well). A little older and a hatchet always went with me as well. For years, I was perfectly happy with my Buck 110, Estwing hatchet and Ka-Bar knife in the woods. I joined this board to talk about sharp things, this forum here, to talk about them in the woods.
 
I think I am more passionate about the wilderness. I think this because i love to just be away from calendars, bosses, cars, and all the stuff I worry about. the wild makes things so much more simple and at the same time more difficult. I do love my knives! but I like to know I feel like my soul is recharged more than having a grand time cutting things.
 
I can't really separate knives or the wilderness, as they go together with real life. I have lived my life in the wilderness of the Boreal forest, and it is the only life I know. A knife is something that I use everyday for everyday things.

Then there's that other urban man made world many speak about, that has made people live a life disconnected from the land and in a sence reality as well.

My observation is that this urban world is a temporary disconnection from that of the real world I am familiar with. In that world, people almost don't need knives for as long as it temporarilly exists. But the catch is 'almost'. Thats where those folks could discuss the merits of knives vs the wilderness.

At some point the connection remains, for the city could not survive without the wilderness. With that said I cannot separate knives from the wilderness for they are one reality.
 
Living in the city with a huge collection of knives ????

Or living in the country without them?

I would definitely choose the country!
 
Being in the wilderness does not require a knife, only you choose that option. Yes it certainly makes life easier, but there are other tools you can reach for if needed - your mind is the best tool
 
I can live without knives. But can't live without wilderness. It is the breath of my life. Besides, I've knapped stone for years and can make effective tools with rocks. But nature is unique in every respect and I'll give up my knife any day but I'll be darn if I'm going to give up the woods!
 
haha ...Thanks for the reply, but you don't have to shout. :) -Just kidding, your font is very bold though.


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