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wildtrail
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I went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out 'till sundown, for going out I found was really going in.
John Muir
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wildtrail
Jul 16, 2002, 6:34 AM
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One touch of nature . . . makes all the world kin.
John Muir
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wildtrail
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread; places to play in, and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
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wildtrail
Jul 16, 2002, 6:35 AM
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In God's wilderness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh, unblighted, redeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and the wounds heal ere we are aware.
You guessed it...
John Muir
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wildtrail
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"So what? I like John Muir."
Steve
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nikegirl
Jul 23, 2002, 6:33 AM
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"A kind word is never forgotten."
~unknow
(this quote is for my grandma)
*she lived by this*
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phillycheese
Jul 23, 2002, 10:22 PM
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"dyslexics untie!!" (written on a chalkboard)
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orestes1724
Jul 24, 2002, 12:15 PM
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"i beleive, that you can keep going, long after you can't"
-unknown
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calamity_chk
Jul 24, 2002, 2:34 PM
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" ... sometimes bouldering feels like a cheap one night stand, where as in projecting a sport climb it becomes more like a relationship. You know, sometimes long and twisted."
-Stephanie Forte
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calamity_chk
Jul 24, 2002, 2:40 PM
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"Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." Dale Carnegie.
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calamity_chk
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"When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time." Pat Ament.
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calamity_chk
Jul 24, 2002, 2:53 PM
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"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." Ren้ Daumal.
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calamity_chk
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"The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers." Yvon Chouinard.
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phillycheese
Jul 24, 2002, 4:56 PM
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woman in a bikini walks by.
Dave: "does anyone have a problem with that?"
(everyone): "nope"
Dave: "well i do! half naked women walking around at 9:30 in the morning!!! Last year, they were COMPLETELY naked by 9:30!! Will she stay that way, or will she be back for 5:00 hot tubs?? Oh pumpkin...."
Dave: "it's not how far you go, it's how go you far"
Ed: "whoa, i've lost way to many brain cells to catch that one"
All these taken from the funniest movie of all time, SKI SCHOOL
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nikegirl
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"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
-Margaret Mead
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*my world will forever be changed*
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sharmagod
Aug 9, 2002, 3:37 PM
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I think....therefore I am.
Jason
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sharmagod
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"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
- Tupac Shakur
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Aug 12, 2002, 5:14 PM
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"Remember when sex was safe and climbing was dangerous?"
-RC.com quote of the day
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wildtrail
Aug 12, 2002, 5:59 PM
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"Does this taste sour?"
Me, after a slug from a gallon of mile a week after its expiration date.
Steve
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wildtrail
Aug 12, 2002, 5:59 PM
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My all time favorite:
"Your what hurts?"
Steve
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wildtrail
Aug 12, 2002, 5:59 PM
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My all time favorite:
"Your what hurts?"
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diarmid
Aug 12, 2002, 6:17 PM
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What are the marks of a sick culture?
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.
A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.
Before a revolution can take place, the population must loose faith in both the police and the courts.
High taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that's old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way - even though there are always endless attempts to wish it way by legislation. But I started looking for little signs and what some call silly-season symptoms.
I want to mention one of the obvious symptoms: Violence. Muggings. Sniping. Arson. Bombing. Terrorism of any sort. Riots of course - but I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking way at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial - but those things are obvious; all the histories list them.
I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named... But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.
This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture - this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper.
--- Friday and Dr. Baldwin in Friday
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wildtrail
Aug 12, 2002, 7:19 PM
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Here is one of mine. I coined it last year when descending Mt. Whitney after getting AMS bad enough to turn me around.
"To fail is frustrating. To never try is defeat!"
Stephen D. Schaefgen (that's Me!)
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calamity_chk
Aug 14, 2002, 12:08 AM
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not really a quote, but anyways ..
'Hope' is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all.
-Emily Dickinson
[ This Message was edited by: clymbr_chk on 2002-08-13 19:08 ]
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pinnaclechick
Aug 14, 2002, 3:40 AM
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"If you think you won't like the answer, don't ask the question."
-read it somewhere, think it was a joke about a guy talking to his girlfriend.. but very true, in my opinion..
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