Best Recreation Words
219 Recreation quotes by 199 unique authors
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Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
— Aldo Leopold
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As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.
— Anna Halprin
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On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.
— Samuel I. Prime
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People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much…
— Marion D. Hanks
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How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure…
— J. Richard Clarke
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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and…
— Izaak Walton
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Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is…
— James L Hymes
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after…
— Seneca the Younger
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Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
— John W. Gardner
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
— George Eliot
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more…
— Lin Yutang
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
— Alan Parker
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We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I…
— Mark Udall
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The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an…
— Stewart Udall
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We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul,…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an…
— Richard Dean Anderson
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job…
— Carlos Alazraqui
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My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is…
— Chauncey Depew
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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,…
— Mark Twain
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You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia
— Chris Patten
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