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Quote for Thursday, November 30, 2006
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth, only crew."
"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. … Read more »
"I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth." -Steve McQueen
"A person who points out what is wrong renders only half a service unless he can point out what is right." -Unknown
"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way man thinks." -Gregory Bateson
"If a Koyukon Indian wrote a book about bears, maybe half the volume would be the rules of keeping yourself in a state of respect toward the animal." -Richard Nelson, Alaskan Anthropologist
"Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" -Aldo… Read more »
"What is the good of having a nice house without having a decent planet to put it on?" -Thoreau
"Each time a man stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls… Read more »