Bushcraft Quotes

[risby]

Any chef, butcher, fishmonger, carpenter, builder and anyone else who uses sharp cutting tools will tell you the sharper the knife the safer the task will be.

Yes you may have been cutting your fingers lots on a sharp knife, but methinks you're just clumsy and/or so used to blunt knives you don't instinctively avoid the edge anymore

SiriusB

Thx for proving my point SiriusB, you old dog.

If it's OK for me to not to avoid the edge because I'm used to a blunt knife it proves my point that the "sharp knives are safer" saying is false.

I'm not advocating the use of blunt knives, I'm saying that the expression "sharp knives are safer" is wrong. Sharp knives are more efficient, they are more effective and they are more dangerous.

Hey, be careful out there.

 

[C_Claycomb]

Sorry for going OT

Back on topic, i found a couple more quotes that I like:

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. –JOHN LE CARRÉ, English writer, 1931—
worth remembering for all of us desk jockeys

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. –NESSMUK (G.W. Sears), Woodcraft, 1963

 

[Chance]

I can't claim to know the orginal source or the exact wording, but: "we are only three meals and twenty-four hours from barbarism".

 

[scanker]

Not sure about originally, but it was used in Red Dwarf, and was quoted at the time of the flooding in New Orleans.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiqu...society_is_only_three_meals_away_from_anarchy
http://www.scienceforums.net/showthread.php?t=8327

 

[dommyracer]

"There are no problems, only issues" - popular Jamaican expression.

 

[bent-stick]

Never pick blackberries along the path that are below waist height...



...I'll leave you to work that one out.

 

[Roving Rich]

C_Claycomb wrote:

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. –NESSMUK (G.W. Sears), Woodcraft, 1963

Great quote from the guy probably who started the American outdoor leisure industry. But wasn't it more like 1863 ??

Cheers
Rich

 

[Wayland]

Off topic but this made me chuckle the other day.

"There are 10 kinds of people in the World, those that understand binary and those that don't."

 

[scanker]

Might show myself up in the wrong category here, but shouldn't that be 10 types?

Isn't 11, those that understand binary and those that don't. And another category you haven't mentioned?

 

[Montivagus]

01!

 

[kb31]

i don't know who said them =
"the best knife you've got is the one in your pocket cos ya always got it"
"the bigger your rucksack the more ya kichen sink it" (stuff ya don't need)

 

[Wayland]

Might show myself up in the wrong category here, but shouldn't that be 10 types?

Isn't 11, those that understand binary and those that don't. And another category you haven't mentioned?

Just goes to show I should re read my stuff before posting.

Original post edited.

 

[SiriusB]

Thx for proving my point SiriusB, you old dog.

If it's OK for me to not to avoid the edge because I'm used to a blunt knife it proves my point that the "sharp knives are safer" saying is false.

I'm not advocating the use of blunt knives, I'm saying that the expression "sharp knives are safer" is wrong. Sharp knives are more efficient, they are more effective and they are more dangerous.

Hey, be careful out there.

No I have only proven that you find sharp knives dangerous

Like I said, perhaps a little more due care from yourself and you wont be picking up your fingers

I work on a meat & fish counter in a supermarket and use very sharp knives all the time. I have only ever cut myself a few times and it has always been due to one horrible knife we have that blunts within minutes of being sharpened lol.

And to add a quote I like, bringing this back on topic:

"How can you love Nature when it did that to you!?"

I believe it is somebody's signature on these very forums. Makes me laugh every time I see it!

SiriusB

 

[Shepard]

"Always hike in bear country with someone you can out run"

Best piece of advice I`ve heard so far!

"The real measure of wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." -unknown

 

[maverix]

One of mine has to be the revised lao tzu:

"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time. Teach a man TO LEARN to fish and you empower him for a life time."

on a lighter note this one makes me grin:

"Light a man a fire and he's warm for the night. Light a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."

 

[Nightwalker]

Funny how these quotes that have been around for donkeys years, now get attributed to Mr Mears.

I dont think he tries to claim/steal and quotes as his own. I have heard him refer to quotation sources. On this particular wood-fire/warm quote he said "It's said.." thats why I included it within the quote; implying he's not trying to claim it as his own.

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[Greywolf]

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I'm sure that somewhere there is a laptop laughing it's screen off at that quote

 

[risby]

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[risby]

No I have only proven that you find sharp knives dangerous

Like I said, perhaps a little more due care from yourself and you wont be picking up your fingers

How do you justify my having to use more care using a sharp knife when the saying has it that it will be safer? Perhaps you'd like to adjust the saying to "A sharper knife is a safer knife unless you cut yourself with it".

The saying is wrong and it's not just me, clumsy oaf that I am; British Blades is awash with postings about how someone has just cut themselves sharpening their axe or latest creation.

 

[scanker]

I go along with it. My reasoning is that if you have two knives, one blunt one sharp, you are more respectful, wary and careful with the one you know to be sharp.

With a blunt knife you have to apply more pressure or force for it to cut, making it more likely to slip and then injure you and you're more casual anyway as you know it to be blunt.

My take on it anyway.