Bush-craft Quotes (please add your own)

[Nicholson95]

"Take only memories, leave only footprints." - Ray Mears

"Everything is edible, even the things that are not... Those kill you... Learn the difference..."

"The best knife is the one you have with you when you need it."

Rabbits are there to feed everything else, and they know it" - Ben McNutt of Woodsmoke.

"There's no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing"

"Do not mess with the forces of Nature , for thou art small and biodegradable!"

Advice on knife use; "The pink things are fingers"

"Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it." - Ray Mears

Quotes in my opinion are easily remembered segments of fruit from the tree of knowledge - Iain Nicholson

 

[unorthadox]

You are only as sharp as your knife - John Lofty Wiseman
New boots, break them in gently - Bushcraft Betty

 

[JAG009]

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture,let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies, it would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it ............Albert Einstein

Jason

 

[bojit]

From my signature .

Veni , vidi , dormivi . - I came , i saw , i slept .

Craig................

 

[Shewie]

Never eat yellow snow

 

[jackcbr]

The more you know, the less you have to carry (that bloke off dual survival)
carry everything you need and remember knowledge weighs nothing (some bloke off this forum)
just because you can, doesn't mean you have to. Just because you couldn't doesn't mean it can't be done. (not sure, it might be an original, then again I might have heard it somewhere)
Squirrels are good eatin' (that one is definitely me)

 

[FerlasDave]

Its not rain, its liquid sunshine!

Knowlage carries no weight - My father always says it.

''Actually'' - Bear Grylls

 

[JAG009]

Its every mans obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it ....Albert Einstein


Jason

Can you guess what i have been reading lately??

 

[Shewie]

Oops too slow

 

[bojit]

Its every mans obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it ....Albert Einstein


Jason

Can you guess what i have been reading lately??

Google ?

Craig.........................

 

[JAG009]

Google ?

Craig.........................

NO !! E=mc2 and if it was not for him there would be no google he took us out of the stone age!!!!

 

[wildrover]

"Nothing moves faster than a greased up Scotsman" ~ Groundskeeper Willie

 

[bojit]

NO !! E=mc2 and if it was not for him there would be no google he took us out of the stone age!!!!

Hey what do i know ,anyway i like stones !

Craig.............

 

[JAG009]

Hey what do i know , i like stones !

Craig.............

LOL good come back Craig!!!! hope your that quick at the next meet in the mosh pit

 

[silentpaddler]

He who runs from bear does not run far.

 

[Bushwhacker]

Don't go poking your fingers anywhere you wouldn't poke your willy.
Especially in harsher environments with lots of nasties.

 

[Tilia]

"eating raw is for those who cant make fire"

 

[ex member coconino]

From my signature .

Veni , vidi , dormivi . - I came , i saw , i slept .

Craig................

Nice one, but it's not a quote until someone quotes it. Job done.

How about "veni vidi bivi"?

 

[eel28]

He who runs from bear does not run far.

or alternativly, you dont need to be a fast runner to escape a bear, just be quicker than your mate

 

[durulz]

'You can eat it, but it tastes like s**t.' - Crocodile Dundee