Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
| LIFE Thought for the Day
- Thread starter It Takes Eleven
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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
- Paul Harvey
TerryP
Staff
You have outdone yourself.
Very So True Today!
footballer
Member
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.
Or
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Or
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
- John Buchan
- John Buchan
Maps are not reality at all - they can be tyrants. I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.
- John Steinbeck
Steinbeck wrote this of paper maps in 1962. I can only imagine his view of mapping programs and a populace consumed by their phones, never noticing the world around them.
- John Steinbeck
Steinbeck wrote this of paper maps in 1962. I can only imagine his view of mapping programs and a populace consumed by their phones, never noticing the world around them.
The long distance hiker, a breed set apart
from the life of the usual pack.
A hoist in his gear, he knows in his heart
he's gone, long before he'll come back.
- Nimblewill Nomad
from the life of the usual pack.
A hoist in his gear, he knows in his heart
he's gone, long before he'll come back.
- Nimblewill Nomad
Tim, Patsy and I shared a shelter with him several years ago on the AT. A very interesting man. We got very little sleep that night enjoying his stories and conversation.
That's awesome! I missed meeting him when we did the Flagg Mountain portion of the Pinhoti a few years back. I was more active in the trail community when he did his Key West to Canada hike. Have you ever seen the short film chronicling his thru-hike a couple of years ago? At 83, he set the record for the oldest thru-hike. Funny, he didn't start hiking seriously until retiring at 61, I believe, and he's logged over 30,000 miles.
PBS12 Presents | The Last Last Hike
83-year-old Nimblewill Nomad is about to become the oldest person to thru-hike the Appalac
No! I'll look it up though. Thanks for mentioning it.
I included the link to it above! It's less than twenty minutes.
A good comb-over is not meant to falsify, but is a guileless celebration of what remains.
- Rachel Kushner
- Rachel Kushner
There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.
- attributed to Vladimir Lenin, origin unknown
- attributed to Vladimir Lenin, origin unknown
An empty altar receives no fire.
- Frank Bartleman
- Frank Bartleman
