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FarPoint

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Anyone out there got some good bushy quotes. I see many on the bottom of posts but it would be great to compile a cool list.

Obvious one is from Henry David Thoreau "In wildness is the preservation of the world"

One of my favourites (especially since I work for a newspaper-

"Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees…to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilization."
Winston Churchill to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

Any gems out there?
 
One of my favourites..

"Who can long watch the ceaseless lapping of a rivers current with out conceiving a desire to set himself adrift"

Or words to that affect, I can't remember who it was I need to credit it to either. I'm no good at this game! :rolleyes:
 
Even some of the cliches make me smile but the one I like the most is Greenpete's tag -

"Do not mess with the forces of nature, for thou art small and biodegradeable!"

ATB

Ogri the trog
 
Feet are made for walking
Mules are made to pack,
I never saw a place that didn't look better lookin back
 
I think it was Clement Freud who, when asked what he would like carved on his gravestone, replied: "Best before end". The same is always true of any trip to the woods.
 
I quite like my signature (obviously, otherwise it wouldn't be my signature :p ) but I'll type it up here in case I change it at a later date.

'It is poor manners to ask someone for the loan of his axe.
It is worse to use it without permission.''
- Mors Kochanski

Nothing philosophical or poignant about it but it's very true.
 
The best quote I've read in a long time was one made by one of our very own members here. A carefully constructed, educated, succinct, measured, observed comment;
taken in context of course, see if you can guess the framework for this carefully constructed comment. Finishes on a nicely comic note!

In Teddy Bear "I'm a complete Walt who is a danger to the public" Grills case, I will make an exception. Seriously. The man is such a complete and utter tit, that I would rather do unpaid overtime than watch his pathetic, self aggrandising stunts. There is a member of this forum who condemns "fantasists". Well Bear is a complete liar, there I've said it. The man is a total Walt. He makes the outdoors into a hostile world to be avoided rather than a welcoming safe place that will sustain you if you take the trouble to learn its secrets.

I detest this idiot and every money grubbing, self promoting, lying, deceiving, bone in his body.

Next week I'll get off the fence.

Red
 
A comment a friend once made on a trip.

"How far away from here are we?"

We all knew right away what he meant to say, but it still took us most of a beer to stop laughing. And we remind him of it often.

Mikey - yee ol' grumpy blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
 
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