Wilderness quotes and sayings !

another Bush-ism:

"one CANNOT determine the skills and knowledge a person has by the size of their knife".

(this is for all the people that think anyone in the woods with a big knife is inexperienced)
 
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Out of my favourite book Dont die in the Bundu:

Jeffrey Farnol said:

'He who a great good thing would know, Must to the silent places go.'
 
Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing it was not fish they were after.
--Henry David Thoreau

Any man may blunder once, when confronted by strange conditions; but none will repeat the error unless he is possessed by the notion that he has nothing new to learn.
--Horace Kephart
 
No words, quotes or sayings.

Just the Peace and Quiet of the great outdoors and the sounds of the Trout as they jump and splash in the Lake.

The same sound as the Cell Phone made as it hit the Water. :D
 
Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not...
Thomas Jefferson.
 
"Yea though I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil,because I am the meanest son of a bitch in the whole damn valley."

"Walk quiet and carry a big stick."

"If you never lie,you never have to remember anything."

Mark
 
Confucius Say

If you build a fire for someone -- you keep them warm for the night

HOWEVER

If you set someone on fire -- you keep them warm for the rest of their life
 
"These are the Mushrooms that are Edible, you can tell because they don't have any Dirt on them."
 
" White man build big fire...sit far. Indian build small fire...sit close."

unknown
 
"Don't worry bout nuthin, cuz nuthins gonna be okay!"

[my cousin to me, from the front of a canoe as we negotiated Class IV rapids 3 days into an Algonquin Park loop.]
 
About 4 or 5 years ago while camping
Me - Look I just made a fire without a lighter or matches
Youngest Daughter (14 or 15 yrs old) - You've been watching Survivorman again (then she walked away unimpressed)
 
Reading a good book on survival does not guarantee you will live through a survival situation - David Scott

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory - Friedrich Engels

Never confuse movement with action - Ernest Hemingway

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties - Aesop
 
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