Mark Tur

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“There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.”
― James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District

tags: clothes, outdoors, weather

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“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

tags: adventure, camping, escape, freedom, holiday, outdoors

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“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: adage, alpinism, alpinist, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-proverb, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, bus, car, catch-line, catchphrase, experiences, experiment, explore, google, hiker, hiking, information-technology, inspirational, journey, knowledge, motivational, mount-everest, mountain, mountaineering, movie-dialogue, movies, observe, path, philosophy, practical, practice, road, search-engine, social-networking, staircase, story, student, success, tagline, taglines, tale, teach, teacher, teaching, temporary, tour, tourist, travel, traveller, travelling, trek, trekking, true, truth, truth-finding, voyage, walking-the-road, wisdom

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“Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

tags: nature, outdoors, pantheism

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“Land forests are the coral reefs of the ocean of air.”
― Steven Magee

tags: air, coral, forests, land, ocean, outdoors, parks, reefs, trees, woods

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