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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
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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

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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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