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

RedbeAR15 said:
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
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My question was about which are you more passionate about. You could also say that wilderness is not required to have and use knives, you choose the option of spending time in the woods. But for most people it is a choice done for plessure, not a requirement for modern survival.
 
Bufford said:
I can't really separate knives or the wilderness, as they go together with real life. ... With that said I cannot separate knives from the wilderness for they are one reality.
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Indeed, and that was the trap I nearly fell into. I had to remind myself that what I experience as “the outdoors” isn't the outdoors at all, it is the outdoors as exposed to my method of measurement. Although there is a bunch of bottom-up stuff that we share as perception there is the great chunk that is the individual's top-down phenomenological experience. Perception is seldom entirely direct. My perception of the outdoors has always included cutting instruments and it is impossible for me to realistically divorce one from the other. By the same token I could ask a surfer which he likes more the sea or surf boards. If he says “sea, because he could always stand on a floating scaffold plank” then we have changed more than just the board. His experience of the sea would no longer be as a surfer. In fact, he may not like that experience at all if he tried it for any length of time. I wonder how OB3b-Blah would find the world without the light saber he grew up using. Perhaps not the same kind of place at all.
 
good question, yet hard to wrap my head/heart around. my pops handed me my first knife when i was a youngster. he took us into the woods lots. he was an avid outdoorsman. and believed even a young girl shld carry her own knife and know how to use it(also of enuf age that i carried it everywhere including school and scouts). they are not seperate for me, mostly.
 
Great replys guys! baldtaco-II, you put into words what I have been thinking but had not vocalised very well. Thank you. :)

I know that for many people the answear to this question seems cut and dry, but it's not that simple from my perspective. I'm glad to see some deep thought going into many of your responses, and that I am not the only one who thinks and feels the way I do about the conection between a love of blades and the outdoors. :)
 
I love my knives & taking new ones & trying them out but,I don't need to.
I NEED TO CAMP.
I was camping before I was knife collecting.I always had a knife with me though,they are pretty handy.
I need to go camping to get out into nature & away from civilization & recharge.I can only get that from being in the wild woods.
Knives make it easier but,not more pleasurable.The pleasure comes from being in the woods,knife or not.
I don't listen to the wind in my knives like I do the trees,or hear my knives chirping like the birds do,or croak like the frogs,or rumble like a river,or call like an elk calf to it's mother.
Give me wilderness or give me death!

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Crappy cellphone pic at Turkey Point lighthouse, off the woods trail, in Cecil County MD, Elk Neck SP. Beautiful little spot, near the Bay and Elk River. Two people were behind me about 50 yards, I could hear people walking their dogs about a hundred yards away from me. Not the back end of civilization. A spot pretty much anybody could get to.

I had all kinds of knives on me, but it was a peaceful spot. I care more about getting to spots like this.
 
I'm "passionate" bout the whole thing.

Knives and wilderness go hand-in-glove.

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Major league knife fixation, here.
 
BryFry: haha ...Thanks for the reply, but you don't have to shout. -Just kidding, your font is very bold though.

Gotta remember that for some people a large font means one is shouting. Sounds kind of silly to me but anyway, actually, old men need large print or they can't see anything. Getting old is a bummer....to coin a phrase from the 60s. Yeah, that old.
 
Knives, definatley the knives. I love cutting and chopping and carving with my knives. I like fishing, and some hiking, canoing at the right time of the year, but knives make it a whole lot more fun for me. I'm just more of an urban dweller. But there are things I enjoy alot that I do outdoors. I mean you can't shoot a deer downtown Saint Paul you know?
 
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