(George Bernard Shaw)
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
(Anonymous)
Make no mistake, the weeds will win, nature bats last
(Robert Michael Pyle)
Setting bog goals for yourself increases your confidence and your belief that they are attainable.
(Anonymous)
Trails will be maintained, reconstructed, and constructed in the interests of: (a) Fire control; (b) administration; (c) grazing; (d) recreation. The objects of trail construction are (a) to provide safe and unobstructed passage of loaded animals and foot travelers at a walking gait and in single file; (b) durability designed to meet expected use and liability of damage from natural causes.
(USDA Forest Service)
The most glorious value of the wilderness is that in it a person may be completely disassociated from the mechanical and dated age of the twentieth century, and bury himself in the timeless oblivion of nature. Its enjoyment depends on a very delicate psychological adjustment. You have got to be immersed in a region where you know that mechanization is really absent, and where you are thrown entirely on the glorious necessity of depending on your own powers.
(Bob Marshall)
Well. I do not know why our visitors had such good manners on our Trails in 1925 and we can scarcely hope that it will ever be entirely thus but still who knows? Perhaps if you ?jolly' the public instead of ordering it about, if you explain instead of dictate, if you ask people to help and to be one with you in protecting nature, they may do it. It is worth trying at any rate, especially as the other way clearly does not work in this land of the free.
(Frank Lutz)