(William Boetcker)
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
(Anonymous)
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
(Benjamin Franklin)
The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
(John Muir)
Water trails: Many people consider any corridor of open water used for recreational travel or string of lakes connected by portage to be a water trail. Camping accessibility by water along the route makes multi-day travel possible. Canoeing, kayaking, and, in some areas, personal-watercraft use are all popular ways to enjoy water trails.
(Roger Moore and Thomas Ross)
As the number of off-road vehicles has increased, so has their use on public lands. Increasingly Federal recreational lands have become the focus of conflict between the newer motorized recreationist and the traditional hiker, camper, and horseback rider. The time has come for a unified Federal policy toward use of off-road vehicles on Federal lands.
(President Richard Nixon)
In the land use planning process, the question should not be, should we close an area to ORV use? But can ORV use, in some form, be permitted on the area? One of the primary questions is generally How much resource impact can we live with in providing for a recreation activity such as orvs.
(USDA Forest Service)
As the painter George Catlin had anticipated the national park idea by suggesting a wild prairie reservation, so Thoreau anticipated the more modest urban-open-space idea by suggesting that every community should have its patch of woods where people could refresh themselves. His notion of nature as having healing powers has now the force of revealed truth.
(Wallace Stegner)