Horace Kephart
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“A camper should know for himself how to outfit, how to select and make a camp, how to wield an axe and make proper fires, how to cook, wash, mend, how to travel without losing his course, or what to do when he has lost it; how to trail, hunt, shoot, fish, dress game, manage boat or canoe, and how to extemporize such makeshifts as may be needed in wilderness faring. And he should know these things as he does the way to his mouth. Then is he truly a woodsman, sure to do promptly the right thing at the right time, whatever befalls. Such a man has an honest pride in his own resourcefulness, a sense of reserve force, a doughty self-reliance that is good to feel. His is the confidence of the lone sailorman, who whistles as he puts his tiny bark out to sea.”
― The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness
― The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness
“The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel.”
― Our Southern Highlanders
― Our Southern Highlanders
“You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.”
― The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness
― The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness
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