Wilderness Wisdom: Quotes for Inspirational Exploration

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John Gookin
Stackpole Books, 2002 - 140 pàgines
  • Compiled by National Outdoor Leadership School instructors and based on NOLS curriculum
  • More than 900 quotes from over 500 sources in categories ranging from leadership to environmental ethics to expedition planning
  • Designed for outdoor use

The culmination of several decades of work on the part of instructors at the National Outdoor Leadership School, Wilderness Wisdom combines quotations from environmentalists, nature writers, athletes, and public figures as diverse as Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Einstein. Perfect for moments of quiet contemplation in the wilderness, it also serves as a handy guide to various aspects of everyday life. This small, lightweight book will be of particular interest to hikers, climbers, and other outdoor enthusiasts looking for inspiration as they meet the challenges of the wilderness.

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Continguts

Mountains
68
Natural RHytHms
69
Observation
71
Oceans
74
Paddling
75
Peak Performance
76
Positive Attitude
77
Respect
82

Conflict Resolution
20
Conservation
22
Desert
25
Endurance
26
Environmental Etkics
27
Expedition BeKavior
37
Expedition Planning
40
Experiential Education
42
Exploration Adventure and Discovery
48
Failure and Success
51
Fear and Courage
53
Feedback
54
FisKing
55
FrienclsKip
56
Hiking
57
Individuality
58
Judgment and DecisionMalcing
61
LeadersKip
65
Responsibility
83
Rivers
86
SelfAwareness
87
SelfDifferentiation
90
SelfLeadersHip
95
SelfSufficiency
96
Service
97
Spirit
98
Spirituality
100
StewardsKip
107
Talcing Risks
108
Teamwork
110
Tolerance for Adversity
112
Vision and Action
118
Wilderness and Environmental Education
123
Tke Wilderness Experience
126
Women
134
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Pàgina 79 - Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Pàgina 52 - To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Pàgina 100 - To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to...
Pàgina 67 - But of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will all say, 'We did this ourselves.
Pàgina 129 - And Realities of your Existence; The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty : For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness And every To-morrow a Vision of Hope.
Pàgina 116 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Pàgina 126 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Pàgina 53 - It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...
Pàgina 116 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Pàgina 73 - The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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