Eric Wade > Quotes

“Richard Louv, in his 2005 book, Last Child in the Woods, writes in depth about the concepts mentioned above, and adds a disturbing conclusion: We are all spending less time in the outdoors, particularly children, and the result may be a wide range of child development problems.”
― Eric Wade, Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream

“In the outdoors, a full day can be consumed doing a simple chore and a full understanding of the chore must be mastered to finish and not waste materials and not get hurt, a valuable lesson for all of us.”
― Eric Wade, Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream

“One cannot stand in the same river twice, because rivers change, and people change,”
― Eric Wade, Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream

“We don’t have much control over what happens to us. When working as a choker setter, an old hand, who was probably in his late thirties gave me some work advice. He told me, “Here you do something, even if it’s wrong.” Dubious advice, perhaps, but it stuck with me. Don’t overthink it; get off your ass and do it, and stuff will happen.”
― Eric Wade, Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time,” wrote Maya Angelou.”
― Eric Wade, Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream

“The Federal Homestead Act, enacted in 1862, became one of the foundation pieces of the settlement of western America. More than ten percent of the land in the United States was settled under this law. From the Act: Be it enacted, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and who has never borne arms against the United States Government or given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall, from and after the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter-section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands . . .”
― Eric Wade, Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream

“The people who practice the Ad Hominem technique are hateful. They create an ugly, distorted noise and know exactly what they’re doing.”
― Eric Wade, Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream