River Quotes for Canoe & Kayak Paddlers
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Canoe and Kayak Paddling Quotations
If there's a place, Canoe
there. -- Brent Kelly
The problem with a canoe is that it’s got a big hole on top that
lets in the water and limits the paddler’s ability to avoid
sinking. --
FreeWine
Life's a river kid...ya gotta go where it takes you. -- Doug
Rich (from: The Riches )
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the
canoe. -- Henry David Thoreau
The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go. Our
true work is this voyage, this adventure. -- Richard Bach
Rivers have what man most respects
and longs for in his own life and thought--a capacity for renewal
and replenishment, continual energy, creativity, cleansing. --
John M. Kauffmann
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides
mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters,
and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man. -- Charles
William Beebe (1906)
The two best reasons to buy a
kayak rather than just renting are sunsets and sunrises. -- Thomas P. Jones
on Buying vs. Renting Kayaks
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still
be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged
animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its
way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away
piecemeal in the currents. -- Wendell Berry
I have need of the sky, I have
business with the grass; I will up and get me away where the hawk is
wheeling lone and high, And the slow clouds go by. I will get me
away to the waters that glass the clouds as they pass. I will get me
away to the woods. -- Richard Hovey
A river is more than an amenity, it is a
treasure -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The river Called. The call is
the thundering rumble of distant rapids, the intimate roar of white
water…a primeval summons to primordial values. -- John J.
Craighead
There is nothing that is so aesthetically pleasing and yet so
functional and versatile as the canoe. -- Bill Mason
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more
rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand
miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle
and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe
and you are already a child of nature. -- Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I have never seen a river that
I could not love. Moving water . . . has a fascinating vitality. It
has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a
thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest
streamlet is an exact replica of a great river. -- Roderick Haig-Brown
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find
your element in each moment. -- Henry David Thoreau
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing- absolutely nothing-
half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. --
Kenneth Grahame (From Wind in the Willows)
ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a
canoe -- you can't take a taxi. -- Alan Alda
All the water that ever has been or ever will be is here now. It
sits, it runs, it rises as mist. It evaporates and falls again as
rain or snow. You cannot pollute a drop of water anywhere without
eventually poisoning some distant place. -- Michael Furtman
What, pray tell, would I buy? There is nothing out here that is not
free for the asking. Can you buy a sunrise? Is there a price to the
exhilaration we feel from the thunderstorm that rages outside?
Nature is the truest democracy, and not the richest man in the world
is served a grander sunset than the beggar. -- Michael Furtman
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for
only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can their be
dedication in preserving it. -- Sigurd F. Olson
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling,
vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies,
making them glide and sing. -- John Muir
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of
subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. -- Hal Borland
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Canoeing & Kayaking Quotes From Unknown Authors
You know you are a kayaker when you
can't go over a bridge without looking for water under it.
Love many, trust a few, and
always paddle your own canoe
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing
I work so that I may boat!
Who cares? I scheduled this trip with the wife and we're going
somewhere rain or shine!
10% of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish
Here... hold my beer, and watch this. (famous last words)
You have to fish where they live...and be present to win.
A nature lover is someone who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the
view.
Paddle solo, sleep tandem.
Like swift water, an active mind never stagnates.
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