"The way of a canoe is the way……" — Sigurd F. Olson
"The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten."
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Sigurd F. Olson
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25 Quotes by Sigurd F. Olson
Sigurd F. Olson has 25 quotes on this site.
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It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without…
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One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and,…
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Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
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Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a…
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I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness…
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Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what…
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Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great…
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In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again…
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While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know…
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I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still,…
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There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance,…
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When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.
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More Almost Forgotten Quotes
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and…
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait…
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is…
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— Sigurd F. Olson
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He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew…
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I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a…
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