(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
(Marcel Proust)
Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.
(Anonymous)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
(Elbert Hubbard)
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
(Henry David Thoreau)
The Great Outdoors is still great. But we found that we are facing a deterioration of the natural resource base, and of the recreation infrastructure. Accelerating development of our remaining open spaces, wetlands, shorelines, historic sites, and country sides, and deferred maintenance and care of our existing resources, are robbing future generations of the heritage which is their birthright. We are selling the backyard to buy groceries.
(Anonymous)
We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is ?walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car or one of them to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.
(Stewart Udall)
Greenway-making is as much a matter of scrounging as it is of making genteel applications to government and foundation funding sources. The fact is, scroungers make by far the best greenway leaders simply because, by rooting around, they somehow find the grants, the in-kind services, donated materials, and significantly, the gifts of land. There is no way to provide tips for the art of scrounging; scroungers are born, not made.
(Charles Little)