Wilderness quotes and sayings !

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"Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything." - Ray Mears
 
"Survival means nothing more than you choosing how you die."

Probably paraphrased and I can't remember who said it, but it's true.
 
NothingCoherent said:
"Spit on the damned thing, don't be a pussy."

A youtube user on carrying blade lube.
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What the hell would you lube a blade for, anyway? That sounds like someone wants to get to know their knife a little too intimately...

Now I'm gonna get all philosophical on you:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.” - Henry David Thoreau
 
Hugh Glass, describing the start of his trek. He’d been mauled by a momma Grizzly, and abandoned to die by his fellow mountain men. With a broken leg and rib bones laid bare, he was looking at a long haul to the nearest American outpost.

“Although I had lost my rifle and all my plunder, I felt quite rich when I found my knife, flint and steel in my shot pouch. These little fixins make a man feel right pert when he is three or four hundred miles from anybody or anyplace.”

[John Myers Myers, Pirate, Pawnee and Mountain Man, 1963]
 
Parphrasing Les Stroud in his book Survive...He says something like " Edible plants are a good thing when they're available, however, anytime you need them to survive it'll be the wrong time of year to harvest them."

And

" When you get hungry enough, plate fright goes right out the window. You ancesters feasted on creepy, slimy, crawly things and so can you."


David
 
"What happens in the woods stays in the woods"



No, seriously, the only one that comes to my mind is:

"White man make big fires, sit far. Natives make small fires, sit close"
 
Red sky in the morning, Shepherd's warning
Red sky at night, Shepherd's delight
Minced Lamb topped with Mashed Potatoes, Shepherd's Pie!

:D
J
 
"We go out into the woods to "smooth it ". We get it rough enough in the city."

Horace Kephart
 
"Knowledge and Skills are light in the backpack and cannot be left behind on a stump and if you give it away to others you will still have plenty left over for yourself in an hour of need."

"If you're seeking to survive in the wilderness then good gear will get you to the last 10%, however, training and practice are needed for the 90%."

"A person can surivive in the woods with a knife...but if a person has an axe they can live like a King!"
 
We have to remember that we (the people) are a part of the earth, not apart from it. (National Geographic April ’95 –124)

“The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man” –Rachel Carson- Mosquito, Andrew Spielman, Hyperion, 2001, ISBN # 0-7868-6781-7

"There is no freedom from nature, the power that binds even the dead together". (84 - Day 17)

Do not mess with the forces of Nature, for thou art small and biodegradable!
(from bushcraftUK-Internet)

"I Am At Two With Nature".........woody alan

'' Will we ever be content with what we have , or will our voracious appetites impel us to consume the resources of this world, and perhaps others, until almost nothing is left? '' - Brian Hayden

Fire, it goes without question, is mankind’s most important technical appliance. And finding out how to actually make fire, is man’s most important invention. (Jurgen Weiner, 2003, BPT 26-10)
(appliance – a device or machine for performing a specific task. (Webster’s)


Of all the skills a backwoodsman needs, firemaking is the most significant. Fire warms us, cooks our food, purifies our water, keeps the creatures of the night at bay, allows us to make tools, and provides not only physical comfort, but spiritual and psychological comfort as well. (Dan Schectman – Backwoodsman magazine)

Without fire, man would have remained a rather unremarkable animal in the African landscape. It was fire which extended our waking hours beyond sunset, sterilized food that might have been contaminated or spoiled, and, perhaps most importantly, allowed us to change the properties of the materials around us. Wood became hardened, bone was more easily broken to expose the nutritious marrow within, stone became more easily fractured. Fire's heat allowed us to venture forth into climates that would otherwise have been inhospitable. But as important as these initial applications were, even they pale in comparison to the new materials which came out of the fire. Clay became pottery, ash became soap, sand became glass, and various minerals became metals. We owe more of our material culture to fire than to any other single phenomenon

"A good knife is everything! And, if you do not want to carry a knife, you should stay out of the woods". (Alton Safford - WW10-3-3)

"A man without a knife is a man without a life"

If a man doesn't carry a pocket knife he may as well wear a skirt. Grampa Crawford

‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...’’ - Thomas Jefferson

It has only been in the last few hundred years that we humans have become disconnected with our life force. And as a consequence, our perception of our place in nature has deteriorated to the point that we are systematically destroying our environment and ourselves. Yet, ironically, by taking a step back in time, it is possible to take an immense step forward in understanding. While we do not believe it is possible to return completely to the old ways, we do believe that once a person experiences the excitement of creating fire by ancient methods, molds a piece of the earth into a functional vessel of beauty, builds shelter using what nature provides, or experiences first-hand any of the life skills of our ancient ancestors, he or she will understand the vital alliance we all have with our past and our environment. (Richard and Linda Jamison – Woodsmoke introduction – ISBN# 0-89732-151-0)


Knowledge is invisible and weighs not at all. Be mindful that in times of crisis if you can find shelter in the forest, rub sticks for fire and know which wild plants around you can be eaten you cannot easily be denied access to a home, hearth and a meal. All that is necessary is that we preserve wild places and our knowledge of them. (Ray Mears – Bushcraft introduction – ISBN# 0 340 79258 2 )

"In the school of the woods there is no graduation day" Horace Kephart

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),...

(Claude Levi-Strauss once said) A primitive people is not a backward or retarded people; indeed they may possess a genius for invention or action that leaves the achievements of civilized people far behind. (KL-42)

"Who would believe that I, chronic complainer and impatient man of the ages, would ever look upon a lump of raw fish and a pint of water as wealth?" (68-Day 14) From: Adrift, Steven Callahan, Houghton Mifflin, 1986, ISBN# 0-395-38206-8
 
I used to use this quote when I had a "real" job in the city. Not really a woodsy quote, but I related it that way.

"Do you work to live, or live to work." [unknown]

That statement operates on many levels for me...

At that time, the only purpose my job served was to finance my time away from it.

Now, my work is a part of what I love to do and brings me closer to nature.



Rick
 
WITH a large majority of prospective tourists and outers, "camping out" is a
leading factor in the summer vacation. And during the long winter months they
are prone to collect in little knots and talk much of camps, fishing, hunting, and “roughing it." The last phrase is very popular and always cropping out in the talks on matters pertaining to a vacation in the woods. I dislike the phrase.

We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it.We get it rough enough at home; in towns and cities; in shops, offices, stores,banks anywhere that we may be placed--with the necessity always present of being on time and up to our work; of providing for the dependent ones; ofkeeping up, catching up, or getting left.....
To this end you need pleasant day
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I have found that nearly all who have a real love of nature and
out-of-door camp-life, spend a good deal of time and talk in planning future
trips, or discussing the trips and pleasures gone by, but still dear to memory.


When the mountain streams are frozen and the Nor'land winds are out;
when the winter winds are drifting the bitter sleet and snow; when winter rainsare making out-of-door life unendurable; when season, weather and law combine to make it "close time" for beast, bird and man, it is well that a few congenial spirits should, at some favorite trysting place, gather around the glowing stove and exchange yarns, opinions and experiences.

Perhaps no two will exactly agree on the best ground for an outing,...or half a dozen other points that may be discussed. But one thing all admit. Each and every one has gone to his chosen ground with too much impedimenta, too much duffle; and nearly all have used boats at least twice as heavy as they need to have been.

The temptation to buy this or that bit of indispensable camp-kit has been too strong, and we have goneto the blessed woods, handicapped with a load fit for a pack-mule. This is nothow to do it.

Go light; the lighter the better, so that you have the simplest material
for health, comfort and enjoyment.
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Nessmuk
 
"Holy s__t it's a bear! RUN!!"
-Anonymous

"Holy s__t it's a moose! Hide behind that tree!"
-Blais Aldridge
 
DOC-CANADA said:
"A good knife is everything! And, if you do not want to carry a knife, you should stay out of the woods". (Alton Safford - WW10-3-3)

"A man without a knife is a man without a life"

‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...’’ - Thomas Jefferson
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Nice DOC.


Always run from a knife and rush a gun.
Jimmy Hoffa
 
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