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rocketsocks
06-05-2012, 17:36
What are some of your favorite quotes,poems,maybe an alternative signiture that you've been thinking about,or whatever.Ok.....I'll kick it off.
These things are good
ice cream and cake,a ride on a harley
seeing monkeys in the trees,rain on my tongue
and the sun shinning on my face
These things are a drag
dust in my hair,holes in my shoes
no money in my pocket
and the sun shinning on my face
Read by Rocky Dennis~Mask,1985 starring Eric Stoltz
Pedaling Fool
06-05-2012, 17:54
Read my signature, pretty much sums it up.
rocketsocks
06-05-2012, 18:42
Read my signature, pretty much sums it up.Ain't that the truth!
This might be of some guidance when contemplating the purchase of yet more cherry hiking gear -- or an expensive tank of gas to get to the mountains.
“If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/267703.John_Greenleaf_Whittier)
Lotsa quotes... :)
http://www.pmags.com/colorado-hiking-and-outdoor-society-quotes
My favorite poem is "nothing gold can stay" by Robert Frost.
Thanks RS for reminding me of that movie, one of my favorites!
WhiplashEm
06-06-2012, 07:08
Lotsa quotes... :)
http://www.pmags.com/colorado-hiking-and-outdoor-society-quotes
I love this.
One of my favorites is this 1806 poem by William Wordsworth, and I often carry a copy in my backpack:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
coach lou
06-06-2012, 12:06
" I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived" Henry David Thoreau
My favorite of his, of many too numerous to list.
Moose2001
06-06-2012, 12:10
So many good ones! Here are a few I've used in journals, etc
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
—JOHN LE CARRÉ, English writer, 1931
Most people are pantywaists. Exercise is good for you.
—EMMA ‘GRANDMA’ GATEWOOD, at age 67 first woman to thru-hike the
Appalachian Trail (1955), 1887–1973
I want to see what’s on the other side of the hill—then what’s beyond that.
—EMMA ‘GRANDMA’ GATEWOOD, at age 67 first woman to thru-hike
the Appalachian Trail (1955), 1887–1973
All other things being equal, choose a john with a view.
—COLIN FLETCHER, The New Complete Walker, 1974
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
Lin Yu-t'ang
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ferris Bueller, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Carl Zwanzig
Standin on top of the world... For a little while.
Van Halen
It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Character Jimmy Dugan in movie A League of Their Own
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
Dave Barry
atmilkman
06-06-2012, 12:33
ARTHUR 'CODY' JARRETT (James Cagne): "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
WHITE HEAT, Warner Bros., 1949
Kerosene
06-06-2012, 12:40
"You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing" --Anonymous
Velvet Gooch
06-06-2012, 12:46
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Ezekiel 23:20 NIV
Pedaling Fool
06-06-2012, 15:53
"You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing" --Anonymous
Absolutely true. A lot of old fuddy-duddies on here need to learn that lesson :D
johnnybgood
06-06-2012, 16:44
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
Feral Bill
06-06-2012, 17:04
"I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction, and that is as deadly in its fashion as heroin or television or the stock exchange. But even in this final stage it remains a quite delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion." Colin FLetcher, The Complete Walker
rocketsocks
06-06-2012, 17:09
"Life is so precious because of it's finality"~Anonymous
hikerboy57
06-06-2012, 18:39
"wherever you go, there you are" -Mike Brady
hikerboy57
06-06-2012, 18:40
"life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."-john lennon
WILLIAM HAYES
06-06-2012, 20:30
there is a path
no simple highway
between the dawn
and the dark of night
and if you go
no one may follow
it is meant for your
footsteps alone
grateful dead lyrics
hikerboy57
06-06-2012, 20:35
La da da daa...
Wise Old Owl
06-06-2012, 22:06
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird? – Edward Hersey Richards (http://www.catsanddogsrumors.biz/wise-owl-sat-oak-spoke-spoke-heard-wise-bird-edward-hersey-richards/)
A Poem Inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” (http://www.catsanddogsrumors.biz/poem-inspired-vincent-van-goghs-starry-night/)16210 (http://www.catsanddogsrumors.biz/poem-inspired-vincent-van-goghs-starry-night/)
coach lou
06-06-2012, 22:32
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird? – Edward Hersey Richards (http://www.catsanddogsrumors.biz/wise-owl-sat-oak-spoke-spoke-heard-wise-bird-edward-hersey-richards/)
A Poem Inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” (http://www.catsanddogsrumors.biz/poem-inspired-vincent-van-goghs-starry-night/)16210 (http://www.catsanddogsrumors.biz/poem-inspired-vincent-van-goghs-starry-night/)
Wasn't that Miss Eula, in Rooster Cogburn?
Here's a poem written just recently by a guy (John Hibbs) currently thru-hiking:
"The Trail"
You walk the trail, looking forward
What's around the bend?
The view from the top, worth the look
Deep breaths your new found friend
Late in the day, seems so long
Will this section ever end?
The stars and moon
Sunrise and set
Noises in the night
Wind, sun, thunder comes
Snow, hail and rain
You forget the strain
the blisters pain
the hot, the cold, being old
Only the memories and photos remain
Your parents gave you a name
but here you can start anew
Choose a name quickly
or again, one will be chosen for you
Gear a common topic
I wonder if it has always been so
Even before the white man came
"Nice buckskin jacket
but will it keep out the rain".
Some walk fast others slow
I have gone past Turtle so many times
It does not seem to matter
what pace you go
Some people leave early
walking in the night
I wonder why they didn't leave yesterday,
or last year
then they wouldn't need their light
There are the flat earth people
who ignore what the guide books say
It will be flat tomorrow
then easy all the way
Hit the town
like a bear
start foraging for food.
Fill the pack
wander back
You get the feeling
Welcome
Good that you are here
Many begin in Spring
A time when life renews
Finding magic really happens
in each and every day
Life becomes simple
just walk to where you lay
Carry all your needs
Wants get in the way.
Take water from the stream
so cool and clear
Your mind becomes at ease
Letting go things
you once held so dear.
To me it's never about
walking a long, long way
It's the journey
People and animals you have met
Though the best part is
it is not over yet.
atmilkman
06-07-2012, 21:51
Here's a poem written just recently by a guy (John Hibbs) currently thru-hiking:
"The Trail"
You walk the trail, looking forward
What's around the bend?
The view from the top, worth the look
Deep breaths your new found friend
Late in the day, seems so long
Will this section ever end?
The stars and moon
Sunrise and set
Noises in the night
Wind, sun, thunder comes
Snow, hail and rain
You forget the strain
the blisters pain
the hot, the cold, being old
Only the memories and photos remain
Your parents gave you a name
but here you can start anew
Choose a name quickly
or again, one will be chosen for you
Gear a common topic
I wonder if it has always been so
Even before the white man came
"Nice buckskin jacket
but will it keep out the rain".
Some walk fast others slow
I have gone past Turtle so many times
It does not seem to matter
what pace you go
Some people leave early
walking in the night
I wonder why they didn't leave yesterday,
or last year
then they wouldn't need their light
There are the flat earth people
who ignore what the guide books say
It will be flat tomorrow
then easy all the way
Hit the town
like a bear
start foraging for food.
Fill the pack
wander back
You get the feeling
Welcome
Good that you are here
Many begin in Spring
A time when life renews
Finding magic really happens
in each and every day
Life becomes simple
just walk to where you lay
Carry all your needs
Wants get in the way.
Take water from the stream
so cool and clear
Your mind becomes at ease
Letting go things
you once held so dear.
To me it's never about
walking a long, long way
It's the journey
People and animals you have met
Though the best part is
it is not over yet.
Not bad. Not bad at all.